0 a small glass bottle, especially one containing liquid medicine:
Once the quality of a batch of serum had been evaluated it could then be distributed into small (twenty cubic centimeters) phials for injection.
The homogenous emulsion was then poured into sterile phials and sealed by flame.
The phials of vaccine were to be shaken before pouring the contents onto a spoon, where it was to be mixed with some milk at body temperature.
The vaccine would then be sent by mail the following day, packaged as three sealed phials with a small file and an insert explaining standard medical use.
Both items were found in the prisoner's clothing and the phial in a packet of cigarettes.
I understand that the phial shatters and, in the words of the manufacturers, it emits the foulest, putrid and overpowering smell which is unimaginably awful.
If you put it in a little glass phial and watch it go down with the food, you will pick up the dead rats very shortly, a few days afterwards.
In this afternoon's debate we have probably seen that promising ministerial career—which would have been based on intelligence—destroyed by bad judgment and melting down into a phial of poison.
