Vintage Medical Tin Container from BAUER & BLACK LIMITED, 'Mercurochrome Handi-Tape' TORONTO, CANADA. A very good condition Mercurochrome 'Handi-Tape' medical dressing tin container, and especially so since most of these tins were kept in the bathroom where moisture deteriorated them quickly.
Beautiful orange is accented with black and cream colours, solid working hinge and clean inside and out. The original WET-PRUF tape for cuts, burns and blisters. Tin was Lithographed in USA. Product was Made in Canada,
DID YOU KNOW? Mercurochrome, (Also known-as Merbromine, Mercurocol, Sodium mercurescein, Asceptichrome, Supercrome, Brocasept and Cinfacromin) is an organomercuric disodium salt compound used as a topical antiseptic for minor cuts and scrapes, and as a biological dye. Mercurochrome is still available in most countries, but several have banned it because it contains mercury.
