Packet of Ipecac and Opium tablets

Made:
1914 in Kassel

Packet of 10 ipecacuanha and opium powder tablets (Dover's Powder) in paper wrapping. 40 mm x 12 mm diameter, 6 g. From a German World War I medical field kit. Unknown maker, for German military use, from Cassel, Germany, 1914.

Details

Category:
Emergency Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A653705
Materials:
opium, ipecacuanha, paper and complete
type:
packetl opium
credit:
Wellcome Trust