Wooden medicine chest with 9 bottles of drugs

Made:: 1801-1850

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Wooden medicine chest with 9 bottles of drugs, 15 in total
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Wooden medicine chest with 9 bottles of drugs, 15 in total, European, 1801-1850

Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A602935

Materials:: box, wood, veneered and stained dark brown, box fittings, brass and bottles (15), glass

type:: medicine chests

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Parts

Glass mortar

Materials:: mortar, glass

Object Number:: A602935 Pt1

type:: mortars

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Glass pestle

Materials:: pestle, glass

Object Number:: A602935 Pt2

type:: pestles

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Bottle of powder of ipecacuanha

Materials:: bottle, glass

Object Number:: A602935 Pt3

type:: bottles

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Bottle of calomel

Materials:: bottle, glass

Object Number:: A602935 Pt4

type:: bottles

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Bottle of James's Powder

Materials:: bottle, glass

Object Number:: A602935 Pt5

type:: bottles

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Bottle of drawing ointment

Materials:: bottle, glass and bottle, tin, cap

Object Number:: A602935 Pt6

type:: bottles

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Bottle of healing ointment

Materials:: bottle, glass and bottle, tin, cap

Object Number:: A602935 Pt7

type:: bottles

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Bottle of Jalap powder

Materials:: bottle, glass

Object Number:: A602935 Pt8

type:: bottles

Turlington's Balsam of Life

Bottle of Turlington's balsam; Robert Turlington secured a patent in 1744 for "A specifick balsam, called the balsam of life." The Balsam contained no less than 27 ingredients, and in his patent specifications Turlington asserted that it would cure kidney and bladder stones, cholic, and inward weakness. He shortly issued a 46-page pamphlet in which he greatly expanded the list, asserting that the "Author of Nature" has provided "a Remedy for every Malady." and "a perfect Friend to Nature, which it strengthens and corroborates when weak and declining, vivifies and enlivens the Spirits, mixes with the Juices and Fluids of the Body and gently infuses its kindly Influence into those Parts that are most in Disorder."