Medicine chest with contents
- Made:
- 1800-1830 in Camberwell and United Kingdom
- maker:
- Robert Hutchings Goddard
Medicine chest, winged front, from Reece's Medical Hall, Piccadilly, with 30 painted glass bottles and 4 drawers, 5 confection glasses, 1 probang, 3 boxes, 1 plaster spreader, 1 seal, 1 spatula, 1 bowl, 1 pill tile, 1 fleam, 1 lancet, 2 syringes, 4 visiting cards, 1 receipt and engraved plate, c1805
Details
- Category:
- Materia Medica & Pharmacology
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A630142
- Materials:
- chest, mahogany, legs, brass, partly japanned, hinges and lock, brass and lock, iron
- Measurements:
-
overall: 615 mm x 360 mm x 250 mm,
- type:
- medicine chest
Parts
Bottle of Epsom salt
Bottle of compound tincture of cinchona bark
Tincture of ginger and camomile
Bottle of compound tincture of senna
Bottle of spirit of lavender
Bottle of Mindererus spirit
Glass bottle for Paregoric Elixir
Bottle once containing hartshorn
Bottle once containing sal volatile
Bottle once containing vitriolic aether
Bottle once containing sweet spirit of nitre
Bottle once containing antimonial wine
Bottle once containing tincture of myrrh
Bottle of dilute sulphuric acid
Tincture of asafoetida
Bottle of ipecacuanha powder
Bottle once containing ferrous sulphate
Bottle of Turkey rhubarb
Bottle of jalap
Bottle of refined camphor
Drawer with compartments for rhatony (empty) and ginger
Drawer with compartments for senna and flaky manna
Drawer with compartments for gum arabic and purified nitre
Drawer with compartments for cream of tartar and flowers of sulphur
Drawer with compartments including 2 for diachylon
- Materials:
- drawer, mahogany , handle, brass and lining, green
- Object Number:
- A630142 Pt26
- type:
- drawer
Apothecary measure
Empty bottle
Bottle
Drawer
- Materials:
- drawer, mahogany , handle, brass and lining, felt, green
- Object Number:
- A630142 Pt30
- type:
- drawer
Bottle for peppermint oil
Glass bottle of sedative opium solution
- Materials:
- trace , opium , glass , paper (fibre product) and materia medica
- Object Number:
- A630142 Pt32
Medicine bottle
Medicine bottle
Medicine bottle
Medicine bottle
Pill box with 41 pills
Pill box
Pill box
Drawer
Plaster spreader
- Materials:
- whole, iron , brass and wood, lignum vitae
- Object Number:
- A630142 Pt41
- type:
- plaster spreader
Match box
Seal
- Object Number:
- A630142 Pt43
- type:
- seal
Spatula marked 'EH or EM
Bowl, possibly a mortar
Bottle once containing spirit of hartshorn
Pill tile
Bottle
Fleam, probably vetinary marked
Confection glass of blistering plaster with brass lid (bottom drawer)
Confection glass of spermaceti ointment
Confection glass with brass lid (bottom drawer) of brown cerale
Confection glass with brass lid (colophony ointment)
Confection glass with brass lid
Lancet
Medicine chest, c 1800.
- Materials:
- chest, mahogany , legs, brass, partly japanned , hinges and lock, brass and lock, iron
- Object Number:
- A630142 Pt61
- type:
- medicine chests