Portland, Indiana Hanlin Rexall Drug Store. Medicine bottle 1930’s To 1950’s

There is med. in the bottle, however it has hardened and is in the bottom.

Words on the bottle-

carbolic acid poison caution Hanlon Rexall drugs phone 726-4868 120 N. Meridian Portland, IND.

external - flood with water, bath with diluted alcohol or whiskey, or a bland oil, (olive, cotton seed, linseed).

Internal – give milk, raw egg white, mucilage gruel, or cornstarch paste, follow with an a emetic (tablespoon full of mustard in a tumbler of warm water).

Call physician

Not on the bottle but the history.

History

Carbolic acid was used by Joseph Lister to treat a patient with a broken tibia bone in 1865. Lister soaked cotton towels in undiluted carbolic acid and applied them to the wound, covering it with tin foil. After six weeks of treatment, the boy was able to walk home. 

Carbolic acid is a derivative of coal tar. It kills germs on contact.