Leather purse-shaped pocket medicine chest with metal hinges and clasp fastening. Containing eleven labelled glass vials of medicinal tablets produced by Burroughs Wellcome & Co. under the 'Tabloid' brand, including opium, quinine bisulphate, calomel, ipecacuanha, ammonium bromide, and other compressed tablets. London, 1925-1940.
Clear glass vial with a cork stopper, containing brown compressed opium tablets. Bearing a printed paper label for Burroughs Wellcome & Co.'s 'Tabloid' brand, with directions for use. From a Burroughs Wellcome pocket medicine chest, London, 1925-1940.
Clear glass vial with a cork stopper, containing brown compressed 'Lead with Opium' tablets. Bearing a printed paper label for Burroughs Wellcome & Co.'s 'Tabloid' brand, with directions for use. From a Burroughs Wellcome pocket medicine chest, London, 1925-1940.
Clear glass vial with a cork stopper, containing a compressed Dover Powder tablet. Bearing a printed paper label for Burroughs Wellcome & Co.'s 'Tabloid' brand, with directions for use and identifying the contents as ipecacuanha and opium. From a Burroughs Wellcome pocket medicine chest, London, 1925-1940.
Clear glass vial with a cork stopper, containing brown 'Warburg Tincture' compressed tablets. Bearing a printed paper label for Burroughs Wellcome & Co.'s 'Tabloid' brand, with directions for use and a warning that the preparation contains a small proportion of opium and is therefore labelled POISON. From a Burroughs Wellcome pocket medicine chest, London, 1925-1940.
Leather-covered pocket medicine chest of purse-like form with a hinged metal frame and clasp fastening. The brown leather-lined interior is fitted with pockets for holding medicine vials and bears a gilt 'Tabloid' trade mark for Burroughs Wellcome & Co., London. 1925-1940.
Amber glass vial with a cork stopper, containing 2½ gr. (0.162 gm.) 'Tabloid' compressed tannin tablets. The printed paper label for Burroughs Wellcome & Co.'s 'Tabloid' brand provides dosage and usage instructions for the treatment of diarrhoea, dysentery, internal bleeding and relaxed throat. From a Burroughs Wellcome pocket medicine chest, London, 1925-1940.
Clear glass vial with a cork stopper, containing brown 'Tabloid' Livingstone Rouser tablets. The printed paper label for Burroughs Wellcome & Co.'s 'Tabloid' brand provides dosage instructions and identifies the preparation as a compound containing jalap, calomel, rhubarb and quinine bisulphate. From a Burroughs Wellcome pocket medicine chest, London, 1925-1940.
Clear glass vial with a cork stopper, containing 5 gr. (0.324 gm.) translucent white 'Tabloid' ammonium bromide tablets. The printed paper label for Burroughs Wellcome & Co.'s 'Tabloid' brand provides dosage instructions and recommends their use in cases of hysteria, epilepsy, nervous excitement, headache and neuralgia, as well as as a sleeping draught. From a Burroughs Wellcome pocket medicine chest, London, 1925-1940.
Clear glass vial with a cork stopper, containing dark brown 'Tabloid' iron and arsenic compound tablets. The printed paper label for Burroughs Wellcome & Co.'s 'Tabloid' brand lists iron hypophosphite, quinine bisulphate, strychnine sulphate, arsenious acid and saccharine as ingredients, and provides dosage instructions. From a Burroughs Wellcome pocket medicine chest, London, 1925-1940.
Clear glass vial with a cork stopper, containing 3 gr. (0.194 gm.) white 'Tabloid' quinine bisulphate tablets. The printed paper label for Burroughs Wellcome & Co.'s 'Tabloid' brand identifies the contents as soluble sulphate of quinine and provides dosage instructions for the treatment of malarial fever, intermittent fever, neuralgia and other fevers. From a Burroughs Wellcome pocket medicine chest, London, 1925-1940.
Clear glass vial with a cork stopper, containing 5 gr. (0.324 gm.) pale brown 'Tabloid' ipecacuanha tablets. The printed paper label for Burroughs Wellcome & Co.'s 'Tabloid' brand identifies the contents as ipecacuanha 'deprived of its emetic principles' and provides dosage instructions for use in cases of dysentery. From a Burroughs Wellcome pocket medicine chest, London, 1925-1940.
Clear glass vial with a cork stopper, containing 1 gr. (0.065 gm.) white 'Tabloid' calomel tablets. The printed paper label for Burroughs Wellcome & Co.'s 'Tabloid' brand provides dosage instructions and recommends their use as an alterative or purgative in bilious and malarial conditions. From a Burroughs Wellcome pocket medicine chest, London, 1925-1940.
