Brown glass jar, with plastic screw cap, sealed with heat sealed viscose. Containing 5 grams of diamorphine hydrochloride
- Made:
- 1960-1985
Brown glass jar, with plastic screw cap, sealed with heat sealed viscose,and paper label. Containing 5 grams of diamorphine hydrochloride (heroin).Diamorphine hydrochloride (heroin) is similar in action to morphine; it is a much more potent than morphine but it has a shorter duration of action. It is used to treat severe pain in cases of advanced cancer when morphine in safe doses has proved inadequate. The jar dates from between .
Details
- Category:
- Materia Medica & Pharmacology
- Object Number:
- 1986-1198
- type:
- jar and diamorphine
- credit:
- Donated by A M Christopher
