Medicine chest

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Medicine chest, tryptich front, back compartment
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Medicine chest, tryptich front, back compartment, with miscellaneous contents, including four glass bottles (1 labelled) and two labelled confection glasses, c1840

Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A163802

Materials:: chest, wood, handle, brass (lacquered), lock and hinges, brass and lock, iron

type:: medicine chests

credit:: Glendining

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Parts

bottle; controlled drug; opium

Small clear glass, rectangle based bottle with glass stopper and paper label. To contain Laudanum, or Tincture of Opium. Believed to have possibly been from a small medicine chest.