Medicine chest with contents

Made:
1834 in England
Medicine chest with contents

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Tall rectangular wooden medicine chest with hinged lid containing 13 glass jars all labelled, a palate knife, a brush, and 2 boxes of weights, English, 1834

Bottle once containing sweet spirit of nitre (nitrous ether spirit), rectangular bottle with glass stopper covered with kid, prepared by Dinneford & Co, London

Bottle for nitrous ether spirit

1831-1870
Bottle of Bicarbonate of Soda (sodium bicarbonate powder), rectangular bottle with glass stopper covered with kid, prepared by Dinneford & Co, London

Bottle of bicarbonate of soda

1831-1870
Bottle of Aromatic Black Draught and senna, rectangular bottle with glass stopper covered with kid, prepared by Dinneford & Co, London

Bottle of senna and black draught

1831-1870
Bottle of Cold-Drawn Caster Oil, rectangular bottle with glass stopper covered with kid, prepared by Dinneford & Co, London

Bottle of caster oil

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Bottle of Aromatic Tincture of Orange Peel and quinine, rectangular bottle with glass stopper covered with kid, prepared by Dinneford & Co, London

Bottle of quinine and orange tincture

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Bottle of powdered rhubarb, narrow rectangular bottle with squared shoulders, kid covered glass stopper, containing light brown powder, no preparer's label

Bottle of rhubarb powder

1831-1870
Bottle of opodeldoc, narrow rectangular bottle with squared shoulders and kid covered glass stopper, containing amber liquid, prepared by Dinneford & Co, London

Bottle of soap and linament of opodeldoc

1831-1870
Bottle of Aromatic Sal Volatile, prepared by Dinneford & Co, London

Bottle for Aromatic Sal Volatile

1831-1870
Blue glass poison bottle with broken cork stopper for Laudanum (opium tincture), with dried traces of contents remaining. 56 mm x 20 mm diameter, 18 g. Dispensed by Dinneford and Co., London, c.1834.

Blue glass poison bottle for Laudanum

1820-1840
Jar of zinc ointment with paper cover, waisted glass jar with circular base containing white-yellow ointment

Jar of zinc ointment with paper cover

Jar of spermaceti ointment with torn paper cover, waisted glass jar with circular base, containing yellowish ointment

Jar of spermaceti ointment with torn paper cover

Glass measuring cylinder with lip, scales marked for fluid drams and fluid ounces, from wooden medicine chest

Measuring cylinder

Bottle of camphorated chloroform, small cylindrical bottle with tall neck, circular rim, and cork stopper, contents now crystallised, prepared by Dinneford & Co, London

Bottle of camphorated chloroform

1831-1870
Bottle of Dr Babington's Domestic Pills, small cylindrical bottle with cork stopper containing black pills, prepared by Dinneford & Co, London

Bottle of Dr Babington's Domestic Pills

Bottle of caustic solution, cylindrical glass bottle with rounded shoulders and cork stopper, prepared by John Lea, Chemist and Dentist, Folkestone

Bottle of caustic solution

Rounded glass bottle with glass stopper and pink-chamois covering containing Dr. J. Collis Browne's patented Chlorodyne (morphine, chloroform and cannabis). Label reads, 'Dr. J. Collis Browne's/ CHLORODYNE/ An Invaluable Remedy in Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis/ Croup, Fever, Neuralgia, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cholera, &c.' Dispensed by J.T. Davenport, English, 1850-1890.

Bottle of J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne

1850-1890
Steel palette knife with wooden handle, trademark Alpha, from wooden medicine chest

Palette knife

Paintbrush with wooden handle, roll of celluloid secures bristles to handle, from wooden medicine chest

Paintbrush with wooden handle

1870-1900
Circular card box containing 7 brass grain weights, supplied by Dinneford & Co, London

Box containing grain weights

1831-1870
Circular card box containing brass scruple and dram weights, supplied by Dinneford & Co, London

Box containing scruple and dram weights

1831-1870
Tall rectangular wooden medicine chest with hinged lid, to contain 13 glass jars all labelled, a palate knife, a brush, and 2 boxes of weights, English, 1834

Wooden medicine chest

1834

Details

Category:
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A24557
Materials:
mahogany, brass and velvet
Measurements:
height 220 mm
length 239 mm
depth 118 mm
type:
medicine chests
credit:
Foster

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