Small pill bottle for 'Blaud Pill and Arsenic'
Maker
Burroughs Wellcome & Co
Date
Circa 1900
Description
Small pill bottle with cork stopper, for 'Blaud Pill and Arsenic' pills. Flattened-cylinder bottle with squared shoulder, cylindrical neck and reinforced rim. In blue-on-blue box cover.
These sugar-coated tablets were distributed by Burroughs Wellcome and Co. The pills are Blaud pills, meaning they are mostly ferrous carbonate. Pierre Blaud first created Blaud pills for anemia. According to one source, the arsenic and strychnine promoted better metabolism in secondary anemia sufferers.
However they were also labelled as a poison, as they oftern contained strychnine and arsenic.
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