Brown glass

Made:
1960-1985
maker:
Evans Medical Limited

Brown glass, rectangle based small bottle with plastic pop cap and paper label. To contain 100 tablets of codeine phosphate. Codeine is an analgesic manufactured from the methylation of morphine. It is much less toxic than morphine and even large do not produce the central depression characteristic of morphine. Doses larger than 60 mg rarely produce any greater analgesic effect than lower doses.

Details

Category:
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Object Number:
1986-1248/393
type:
bottle and codeine
credit:
Donated by A M Christopher