ng his life had made one modification. He explained it
in a broadside, saying that "to prevent the Villainy of some Persons
who buying up my empty Bottles, have basely and wickedly put therein a
vile spurious Counterfeit-Sort," he had changed the bottle shape. The
date molded into the glass on his supply of new genuine bottles was
January 26, 1754.[54] This was, perhaps, a very fine point of
difference from the perspective of the average customer, and in any
case the bottle was hidden under its paper wrapper.

[53] "From past times an original bottle of Turlington's Balsam,"
_Chemist and Druggist_, September 23, 1905, vol. 67, p. 525;
Stewart Schackne, "Bottles," _American Druggist_, October 1933,
vol. 88, pp. 78-81, 186-188, 190, 194; Frederick Fairchild
Sherman, "Some early bottles," _Antiques_, vol. 3, pp. 122-123;
and Stephen Van Rensselaer, _Early American bottles and flasks_,
Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1926.

[54] Waldo R. Wedel and George B. Griffenhagen, "An English
balsam among the Dakota aborigines," _American Journal of
Pharmacy_, December 1954, vol. 126, pp. 409-415.

The British Oil bottle was tall and slender and it rested on a square
base. Godfrey's Cordial came in a conical vial with steep-pitched
sides, the cone's point replaced by a narrow mouth.[55] Bateman's
Pectoral Drops were packaged in a more common "phial"--a tall and
slender cylindrical bottle.[56] Dalby's Carminative came in a bottle
not unlike the Godfrey's Cordial bottle, except that Dalby's was
impressed with the inscription DALBY'S CARMINATIV.[57] Steer's
Opodeldoc bottles were cylindrical in shape, with a wide mouth; some
apparently were inscribed OPODELDOC while others carried no such
inscription. At least one brand of Daffy's Elixir was packaged in a
globular bottle, according to a picture in a 1743 advertisement.[58]
Speculation regarding the size and shape of the Stoughton bottle
varies.[59] At least one Stoughton bottle was described as "Round
amber. Tapered from domed shoulder to base. Long 5 in. bulged neck.
Square flanged mouth. Flat base."[60]

[55] Sherman, _op. cit._ (footnote 53).

[56] Schackne, _op. cit._ (footnote 53).

[57] George S. and Helen McKearin, _American glass_, New York,
1941.

[58] _Daily Advertiser_, London, October 29, 1743.

[59] George Griffenhagen, "Stodgy as a Stoughton bottle,"
_Journal of the