Wooden chest containing glass phials of tablets

Made:: 1900-1918 in Germany

maker:: Unknown

Wooden chest made to hold 50 stoppered glass phials of tablets, containing 41 phials and some loose tablets. Chest: 125 mm x 235 mm x 125 mm, phial: 100 mm x 15 mm diameter. Substances within phials include phenazone, quinine, aspirin, mercury, ipecacuanha, and opium. Unknown maker, for military use, German, 1900-1918.

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Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A654445

Materials:: pine (wood), brass (copper, zinc alloy), opium, mercury, aspirin, quinine and ipecacuanha

Measurements:: chest: 125 mm x 235 mm x 125 mm,
phial: 100 mm 15 mm,

type:: container and opium

credit:: Wellcome Trust

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Wooden chest containing glass phials of tablets

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