Brown octagonal bottle containing brown resinous deposit
Brown octagonal bottle containing brown resinous deposit, English (Belladonna Liniment).
9 poison bottles of varying size
- Made:
- 1860-1920
9 poison bottles of varying size, shape, colour, content and provenance, 1860-1920
Details
- Category:
- Materia Medica & Pharmacology
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A654539
- Materials:
- glass and stopper, cork
- Measurements:
-
largest bottle: height 107 mm
smallest: height 63 mm
- type:
- poison bottle
Parts
Blue rectangular bottle
Blue rectangular bottle with fluted back and sides containing solid deposit (Fowlers solution of arsenic).
Flat blue rectangular bottle containing some powder (unidentified drug)
Flat blue rectangular bottle containing some powder (unidentified drug).
Hexagonal blue bottle with 2 sides fluted
Hexagonal blue bottle with 2 sides fluted, containing some powder (drug unidentified).
'Not to be taken' moulded down one side, and '2 oz' moulded on base.
Blue hexagonal bottle with 3 ribbed sides
Blue hexagonal bottle with 3 ribbed sides, empty, for unidentified drug. Illegible indian script.
Clear cylindrical bottle with some brown deposit (Nux Vomica Tincture)
Clear cylindrical bottle with some brown deposit (Nux Vomica Tincture).
Octagonal blue bottle
Octagonal blue bottle, label illegible, unidentified drug.
poison bottle
poison bottle, one of nine, 1860-1920
