Dr Wright’s Celebrated Pearl Ointment c1879-1915

Circular white ceramic cosmetic pot lid, for Dr Wright’s Celebrated Pearl Ointment, with green transfer inscription on lid. The ointment was indicated in 1879, ‘For the cure of cancerous and scrofulous ulcers and tumours, glandular affections of the neck, erysipelas, scurvy, evil, ringworm, scald head, white swellings, piles, ulcerated sore legs, chilblains, chapped hands and lips, burns, scalds, sore nipples and breasts, eruptions and pimples on the face, boils, abscesses, corns, bunions, grocers’ itch, inflamed and diseased eyes, insect bites and stings, bruises, sores, and wounds of every description, and all skin diseases’. The formula published in 1844 included white mercuric oxide, solution of lead diacetate, white beeswax, and olive oil.