Portable stitched leather medicine chest with strap handle

Made:
Unattributed place

Portable stitched leather medicine chest with strap handle, containing 19 labelled glass bottles and drugs, list of contents in German, syringe and glass measure, inscribed CK, prepared by Johnson and Sons, London, English, 1871-1910

Details

Category:
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A657832
Materials:
wood, leather and brass
type:
medicine chests
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

Parts

Small glass bottle of Dover's powdr

Small glass bottle of Dover's powdr

Small glass bottle with bone and cork stopper full of Dover's Powder. 43 mm x 18 mm diameter, 15 g. By Johnson and Sons, English, 1871-1910.

Materials:
glass , cork , bone , complete , ipecac and opium
Object Number:
A657832 Pt7
type:
bottle and opium
bottle; controlled drug; opium

bottle; controlled drug; opium

Rectangle based clear glass bottle with glass stopper and paper label. Bottle to contain approximately 1 ounce of laudanum otherwise known as tincture of opium (tinctura opii simplex).

Materials:
glass and stopper, glass
Object Number:
A657832 Pt21
type:
bottle and opium