Mahogany medicine chest with contents

Made:: 1831-1870

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Mahogany medicine chest with hinged locking flaps front and back, containing 3 empty bottles, 8 bottles of medicine, palette knife, mortar and pestle, balance, and 2 empty bottles once containing weights, box engraved with the name 'R Somerset Esq', English, 1831-1870

Two empty medicine bottles

Medicine bottle for extract of ginger

1831-1870

Bottle for soap linament and opodeldoc linament

1871-1900

Bottle of rhubarb and Gregory's Powder

1871-1900

Bottle of sal volatile and ammonia solution

1871-1900

Bottle for Cholera Drops

1864

Empty medicine bottle

Bottle of calomel

1871-1900

Bottle of Dover's Powder

1831-1870

Bottle of antimonial powder

1871-1900

Palette knife with wooden handle

1831-1870

Jar of rhubarb pills

1871-1900

Glass mortar

Glass pestle

Swan-necked beam balance

Empty box for weights

Mahogany medicine chest with contents

1831-1870

Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A22163

Materials:: mahogany and brass

Measurements:: overall: 220 mm x 232 mm x 118 mm,

type:: medicine chests

credit:: Knight, Frank and Rutley

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