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Target ClearRx prescription bottles. ClearRx is a trademark for a design for prescription drug packaging, designed by design student Deborah Adler as a thesis project and adopted by Target Corporation (with refinements by industrial designer Klaus Rosburg) for use in their in-store pharmacies in 2005. [1]
Various types of plastic bottles are used both by drug producers as well as by pharmacists in a pharmacy. Prescription bottles have been around since the 19th century. [7] Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, prescription medication bottles were called medicinal bottles. [7] There are many styles and shapes of prescription bottles. [7]
Vial of vaccine and syringe Examples of modern flat-bottomed plastic vials Sterile single-use vial of eye drops. A vial (also known as a phial or flacon) is a small glass or plastic vessel or bottle, often used to store medication in the form of liquids, powders, or capsules.
Old bottle of Paregoric, circa 1940s. The large red X on the label indicates that it was classified as an "exempt narcotic", sold without prescription even though it contains morphine. Paregoric , or camphorated tincture of opium , also known as tinctura opii camphorata , is a traditional patent medicine known for its antidiarrheal ...
The first, from an 1870 publication, is "Best Turkey opium 1 oz., slice, and pour upon it boiling water 1 gill, and work it in a bowl or mortar until it is dissolved; then pour it into the bottle, and with alcohol of 70 percent proof 1 ⁄ 2 pt., rinse the dish, adding the alcohol to the preparation, shaking well, and in 24 hours it will be ...
Chinese snuff bottle stopper with a snuff spoon (also known as a cocaine spoon) A snuff spoon is a tiny spoon used for nasal insufflation of powdered substances. In the ancient time the spoons were used to ingest psychotropic substances, [ 12 ] in the 18th century − tobacco , [ 13 ] in the 20th century − cocaine (the spoon is thus also ...
A bottle of aspirin with a child-resistant cap bearing the instruction "push down & turn to open" Opening many C-R packages involves two dissimilar motions. Child-resistant packaging or CR packaging is special packaging used to reduce the risk of children ingesting hazardous materials. This is often accomplished by the use of a special safety cap.
Syrup of ipecac (/ ˈ ɪ p ɪ k æ k /), or simply ipecac, is a drug that was once widely used as an expectorant (in low doses) and a rapid-acting emetic (in higher doses). It is obtained from the dried rhizome and roots of the ipecacuanha plant (Carapichea ipecacuanha), from which it derives its name. It is no longer regularly used in medicine.