Bottle of calcined magnesia
Bottle of calcined magnesia
Medicine chest
- Made:
- 1831-1870
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Medicine chest, mohogany, with 18 glass bottles, 17 labelled from suppliers in Edinburgh, glass pill tile, 2 boxes of ointment, glass pestle and mortar, 2 packets of drugs, litmus paper, 1 box with 6 weights and 12 other weights, Scottish, c1850
Details
- Category:
- Materia Medica & Pharmacology
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A23861
- Materials:
- chest, mahogany, lining, velvet, red and handle, brass
- type:
- medicine chests
Parts
Bottle of white powder
Bottle of white powder
Bottle of bromide of Potash
Bottle of bromide of Potash
Bottle of tincture of jalap
Bottle of tincture of jalap
Bottle of tincture of rhubarb
Bottle of tincture of rhubarb
Bottle used for spirit of Sal volatile
Bottle used for spirit of Sal volatile, empty
Bottle of Epsom salts
Bottle of Epsom salts
Bottle used for sweet spirit of nitre
Bottle used for sweet spirit of nitre
bottle; controlled drug; opium
Rectangular based clear glass bottle with glass stopper and paper label. Bottle to contain approximately 2 ounces of laudanum otherwise known as tincture of opium (tinctura opii simplex).
Bottle of paregoric elixir
Rectangular glass bottle used for paregoric elixir, with trace contents remaining. 103 mm x 33 mm x 23 mm. Chemists label reads, 'ROBERTSON/PAREGORIC ELIXIR/35, GEORGE STREET EDINBURGH/ CHEMIST/DRUGGIST'. Dispensed by Robertson chemists, Edinburgh, 1831-1870.
Bottle used for antimonial wine
Bottle used for antimonial wine
Bottle of powder
Bottle of powder, likely ipecacuanha
Pill tile with angled corners
Pill tile with angled corners
Bottle of tartar emetic
Bottle of tartar emetic
Bottle of antimonial powder
Bottle of antimonial powder
Bottle used for sulphate of quinine
Bottle used for sulphate of quinine
Bottle of calomel
Bottle of calomel
Bottle of mercury with chalk
Bottle of mercury with chalk
- Materials:
- bottle, glass and stopper, glass
- Object Number:
- A23861 Pt18
- type:
- bottles
- Image ©
- The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Box of brown cerate
Box of brown cerate, hinged lid, ring handle
Box of basilicon ointment,
Box of basilicon ointment, hinged lid with ring handle
Phial for 'Solution of Muriale of Morphia'
Glass phial with cork stopper used for Muriate of morphia (morphine), with trace contents remaining. 85 mm x 20 mm diameter. Handwritten label reads, 'Solution of/Muriate of Morphia/Poison'. Probably Scottish, 1831-1850.
Packet containing five sachets of brown powder
Packet containing five sachets of brown powder
Two booklets of litmus paper
Two booklets of litmus paper
Handheld scales
Handheld scales, pans suspended from three cords
Three grain weight
Three grain weight
Half grain weight
Half grain weight
Half grain weight
Half grain weight
Five grain weight
Five grain weight
Five grain weight
Five grain weight
Five grain weight
Five grain weight
Four grain weight
Four grain weight
Medicine chest
Medicine chest, mahogany case (without contents see other parts), Scottish, c1850
- Materials:
- mahogany (wood) , velvet and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
- Object Number:
- A23861 Pt47
- type:
- medicine chest
