Rectangular leather medicine chest lined with leatherette and velvet

Made:: 1801-1900

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Rectangular leather medicine chest lined with leatherette and velvet, contains 11 glass bottles (9 labelled), medicine measures, balances and weights, English, 1801-1900.

Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A54505

Materials:: leather, leatherette, velvet and brass

type:: medicine chests

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Parts

Rectangular glass bottle

Rectangular glass bottle, kid covered stopper, half full of senna liquid

Materials:: glass

Object Number:: A54505 Pt1

type:: bottles

Bottle of aromatic confection

Rectangular glass bottle, kid covered stopper, half full of 'Aromatic Confection' (contains opium). 89 mm x 49 mm x 42 mm, 220g. Unknown maker, English, 19th century.

Materials:: glass , kid , opium and half-full

Object Number:: A54505 Pt2

type:: bottle and opium

Square glass bottle with glass stopper

Square glass bottle with glass stopper, half full of white sodium carbonate powder

Materials:: glass

Object Number:: A54505 Pt3

type:: bottles

Square glass bottle with glass stopper

Square glass bottle with glass stopper, empty, originally contained sal volatile

Materials:: glass

Object Number:: A54505 Pt4

type:: bottles

Square glass bottle with glass stopper

Square glass bottle with glass stopper, contains 10 large yellow-coated pills

Materials:: glass

Object Number:: A54505 Pt5

type:: bottles

Square glass bottle with glass stopper

Square glass bottle with glass stopper, contains white potash bicarbonate powder

Materials:: glass

Object Number:: A54505 Pt6

type:: bottles

Bottle for chlorodyne

Narrow rectangular glass bottle with glass stopper, empty, originally contained chlorodyne. 89 mm x 32 mm x 20 mm, 73 g. English, 19th century.

Materials:: glass and empty

Object Number:: A54505 Pt7

type:: bottles and pharmaceutical preparation

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).

Materials:: glass

Object Number:: A54505 Pt8

type:: bottle and opium

Bottle of paregoric elixir

Narrow rectangular bottle with chamois over stopper containing Paregoric Elixir (camphorated tincture of opium), half-full. 85 mm x 30 mm x 17 mm, 52 g. Unknown maker, English, 19th century.