While she attends a party, Mrs. Ross leaves her young daughter to care for her bed-ridden mother. At the party, Mrs. Ross realizes she left the wrong medicine, and desperately tries to contact her daughter before it's too late.
The Medicine Bottle (1909) Online
This film demonstrates two things, the efficacy of that time-saving agent which out Mercurys Mercury, the telephone, and the importance of that movement to enforce a differential form of bottle in which to hold poisonous liquids. Mrs. Ross, whose mother is very ill, has in attendance a trained nurse, who has received an urgent message to come to her own home, owing to the illness of her sister. As Mrs. Ross is dressed and ready to attend an afternoon tea at Mrs. Parker's, this forced absence of the nurse is very inopportune. However, little Alice. Mrs. Ross's seven-year-old daughter, is a bright child, so she feels that she can trust her to look after her grandma, and give her the medicine at the regular intervals. Mrs. Ross, herself, is suffering from a painful abrasion on her hand, for which she has procured an antiseptic to bathe it with, which is a deadly poison. It happens that the antiseptic and grandma's medicine are contained in similar-shaped bottles, and Mrs. Ross in her ...
| Credited cast: | |||
 | Florence Lawrence | - | Mrs. Ross |
 | Adele DeGarde | - | Mrs. Ross's Daughter |
 | Marion Leonard | - | Mrs. Parker |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Linda Arvidson | - | Telephone Operator / At Party |
 | Clara T. Bracy | ||
 | Gladys Egan | ||
| Anita Hendrie | - | At Party |
| Min Johnson | - | At Party |
 | Jeanie Macpherson | ||
 | David Miles | - | At Party |
 | Owen Moore | - | At Party |
 | Barry O'Moore | - | At Party (as Herbert Yost) |
 | Mack Sennett | - | At Party |
 | Dorothy West | - | At Party |
Released as a split reel along with Jones and His New Neighbors (1909).
User reviews