From Eileen’s OG garden: Gomphrena “Truffula Pink.” and a historic bottle. Paul Goldfinger photograph. Click to study. 7/3/22.
Eileen and Paul Goldfinger. Editors Blogfinger.net
This medicine bottle was unearthed in 2002 when workers were doing some restoration work at our 1880 Victorian Ocean Grove home. We think the bottle is about 140 years old. There is no writing on it. Eileen likes small glass bottles which she uses as vases.
I like to think that this bottle contained digitalis (from the Foxglove plant) which had been discovered by the English physician and scientist Dr. William Withering in 1785.
He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, and physicians still use digitals to treat certain cardiac problems including congestive heart failure and rapid heart rhythms.
We were excited to acquire this bottle along with decaying old newspapers and some historic structural features including a hidden staircase in the kitchen.
FIONA APPLE. “Across the Universe.” By the Beatles.