1938 Everest expedition 'Tabloid' medicine chest and contents
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Left hand side: 1981-1009, 'Tabloid" medicine chest, style 260, supplied to 1938 Everest Expedition, prepared by
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Bottle with glass stopper used for aromatic chalk powder with opium, empty. Overhead view of whole object against
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Bottle with glass stopper used for aromatic chalk powder with opium, empty. Detail view of top of object against black
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Contents of 'Tabloid" medicine chest, style 260, supplied to 1938 Everest Expedition, prepared by Burroughs Wellcome
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'Tabloid" medicine chest, style 260, and contents. Supplied to 1938 Everest Expedition, prepared by Burroughs Wellcome
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Bottle with glass stopper containing 11 acriflavine tablets, 1.755 grains each. Part of the medical equipment carried
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Bottle with glass stopper containing 11 acriflavine tablets, 1.755 grains each. Part of the medical equipment carried
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Bottle with glass stopper containing aspirin tablets. Part of the medical equipment carried by the British land
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Bottle with glass stopper containing aspirin tablets. Part of the medical equipment carried by the British land
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Bottle with glass stopper containing soda-mint tablets. Part of the medical equipment carried by the British land
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Bottle with glass stopper containing soda-mint tablets. Part of the medical equipment carried by the British land
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Bottle with cork stopper, containing potassium bromide tablets. Part of the medical equipment carried by the British
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Bottle with cork stopper, containing potassium bromide tablets. Part of the medical equipment carried by the British
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Rubber catheter from 'Tabloid" medicine chest, style 260, supplied to 1938 Everest Expedition, prepared by Burroughs
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Original envelope for rubber catheter from 'Tabloid" medicine chest, style 260, supplied to 1938 Everest Expedition,
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'Tabloid" medicine chest, style 260, supplied to 1938 Everest Expedition, prepared by Burroughs Wellcome and Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.), London 1937-1938
The medical equipment carried by the British land expedition to Mount Everest in 1938 consisted of two ‘Tabloid’ aluminium medicine chests made by Burroughs, Wellcome & Co. The chest certainly looks as though it has been to Everest and back. The team reached over 27,000 ft (8,200 m) via the north-west ridge without supplemental oxygen before being forced down due to bad weather and sickness.
The chests were filled with first aid equipment for the journey. The report of the exploration states “…the equipment and the containers were extremely satisfactory”. Tabloid medicine chests were taken on the Everest expeditions of 1921, 1922 and 1924. It is shown here with a medicine chest from the 1924 expedition (A700003).
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- Category:
- Materia Medica & Pharmacology
- Object Number:
- 1981-1009
- type:
- medicine chest
- taxonomy:
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- furnishing and equipment
- furnishing - artefact
- case furniture
- chest
- credit:
- On loan from the Wellcome Trust
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