Brass bound mahogany medicine chest with 12 glass bottles

Made:: 1840-1900

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Brass bound mahogany medicine chest with 12 glass bottles, 4 labelled, and scales, 19th century

Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A23915

Materials:: mahogany, binding and scales, brass and bottles, glass

Measurements:: length 250 mm

type:: medicine chests

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Parts

Small glass bottle of Dover's Powder

Small glass bottle with ground glass stopper of Dover's Powder (opium and ipecac). 70 mm x 37 mm x 30 mm, 87g. Dispensed by Kingsland & Co., English, 1840-1900.

Measurements:: overall: 70 mm x 37 mm x 30 mm, 87g

Materials:: glass , paper , opium , ipecac and complete

Object Number:: A23915 Pt1

type:: bottle and opium

Bottle of peppermint (essence)

Object Number:: A23915 Pt2

type:: bottle

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).