Antidote case containing six drugs

Made:: 1860-1890

Antidote case containing six drugs, owned by Prof. George Harley, English, 1860-1890

Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A633666

Materials:: case, leather, stiffened with cardboard and bottles, glass, clear, ground

Measurements:: height 90 mm
width 139 mm
depth 27 mm

type:: antidote cases

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Parts

Bottle, full of zinc sulphate

Measurements:: height 81 mm

Materials:: glass, clear, ground

Object Number:: A633666 Pt1

type:: bottles

Bottle, containing tannic acid

Measurements:: height 81 mm

Materials:: glass, clear, ground

Object Number:: A633666 Pt2

type:: bottles

Bottle, containing belladonna tincture

Measurements:: height 81 mm

Materials:: glass, clear, ground

Object Number:: A633666 Pt3

type:: bottles

bottle; controlled drug; morphine

Small narrow, clear glass circle based bottled with glass stopper and paper label. Contains morphine hydrochloride (morphiae hydrochloras).

Measurements:: height 81 mm

Materials:: glass, clear, ground

Object Number:: A633666 Pt4

type:: bottle and morphine

Bottle, with trace of woorara powder

Measurements:: height 81 mm

Materials:: glass, clear, glass

Object Number:: A633666 Pt5

type:: bottles

Glass bottle for chlorodyne tincture

Small glass bottle with glass stopper containing a trace of chlorodyne tincture. 81 mm. Part of an antidote case of 6 drugs owned by Professor George Harley. Handwritten label reads, 'Chlorodyne'. Chlorodyne is a mixture of laudanum (an alcoholic solution of opium), tincture of cannabis and chloroform. It was invented in the 19th century by Dr. John Collis Browne as a treatment for cholera. It was sold as a patent medicine in the 19th and early 20th century and was used to treat coughs, diarrhoea, insomnia and to relieve pain. English, 1860-1890.