Veterinary medicine chest

Made:: circa 1860 in England

Veterinary medicine chest, oak, with main storage compartment in three sections and a drawer, formerly the property of the Hawkins family, Staunton Court, nr. Gloucester, with various contents of the medicine chest including instruments, glassware, ointment jars, paper packets of medicine, and other medical preparations. The top drawer of the chest contains glass medicine bottles, mostly with glass stoppers. Some of the bottles are empty, although some still contain medical preparations. Other substances present in the glassware include antimony, digitalis, tobacco, ipecacuanha powder, ammonium hydrochloride, strychnine (in a green glass poison bottle), and calomel (mercury chloride). The removable bottom shelf contains metal ointment pots, and various medicines in paper packets, including aresnic. Unknown maker, English, c. 1870.

Contents of veterinary medicine chest

1870

Caustic clamp from veterinary medicine chest

Green glass bottle of strychnine from Veterinary medicine chest

Tin for Harrison's reliable rat and mouse poison

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Details

Category:: Veterinary Medicine

Object Number:: 1988-988

Materials:: oak (wood), brass (copper, zinc alloy), calomel, ipecacuanha, digitalis, antimony, ammonium hydrochloride, strychnine, aresnic, chamois, complete, glass and oak

type:: medicine chest

credit:: Purchased from J W Hawkins

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Veterinary medicine chest

Contents of veterinary medicine chest

Caustic clamp from veterinary medicine chest

Green glass bottle of strychnine from Veterinary medicine chest

Tin for Harrison's reliable rat and mouse poison

Green glass bottle from Veterinary medicine chest

Green glass bottle from Veterinary medicine chest

Bottle of Ipecacuanha powder from Veterinary medicine chest

Bottle of 'Syrup of Poppies' with trace residues remaining