Mahogany medicine chest containing glass bottles and equipment

Made:: 1831-1870

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Medicine chest, mahogany, with 17 glass bottles, 15 labelled, 3 boxes for drugs, glass pestle and mortar, glass measuring cylinder, packet of bandage, safety pin, scales and 10 weights, contents from Glasgow. c1850

Bottle of potassium bicarbonate powder, Howards Bicarbonate of Potash, Joseph Duncan pharmaceutical chemist, 34 Ashfield Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow

Bottle of English Paregoric Elixir

1831-1870

Empty medicine bottle used for sodium bicarbonate (bicarbonate of soda)

Empty bottle used for sodium bicarbonate

Bottle of phenol solution, labelled "Poison/Carbolic Acid", prepared by J Duncan of Glasgow

Bottle of carbolic acid

Bottle of potassium permanganate crystals

Bottle of cinchona compound tables, labelled "compressed tablets of quinine" prepared by J Duncan pharmaceutical chemist

Bottle of cinchona compound pills

Bottle used for cajuput oil, prepared by J Duncan of Glasgow

Bottle of cajaput oil

Bottle of Chlorate of Potash pills (potassium chlorate) prepared by J Duncan of Glasgow

Bottle of potassium chlorate pills

Empty box used for ginger, hinged with ring handle on top, printed label "Ginger"

Box used for powdered ginger

Box of boracic acid crystals, hinged with ring handle on top, prepared by J Duncan of Glasgow

Box of boracic acid crystals

Box of boracic acid lint, hinged with ring handle on top

Box used for boracic acid lint

Glass pestle, from wooden medicine chest

Glass pestle

Glass mortar, from wooden medicine chest

Glass mortar

Three quarter ounce measuring cylinder from wooden medicine chest

Measuring cylinder

Gauze bandage with wrapper, from medicine chest

Gauze bandage with wrapper

Safety pin, from wooden medicine chest

Safety pin for bandage

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Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A16932

Materials:: chest, mahogany, lining, velvet and handle, brass

Measurements:: height 215 mm
length 253 mm
width 188 mm

type:: medicine chests

credit:: Loan, Wellcome Trust

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