Medicine chest

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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 of grey powder (unknown)

Materials:: bottle, glass and stopper, glass

Object Number:: A163802 Pt1

type:: bottle

Bottle of jelly (unknown)

Materials:: bottle, glass , stopper, wood, boxwood and cork

Object Number:: A163802 Pt2

type:: bottle

Bottle of pills (unknown)

Materials:: bottle, glass and cap, iron, tinplate

Object Number:: A163802 Pt3

type:: bottle

Caustic stick

Materials:: sleeve, wood and holder, wood

Object Number:: A163802 Pt4

type:: stick

Brush with pills (unknown)

Materials:: handle, quill

Object Number:: A163802 Pt5

type:: brush

Cork stopper

Materials:: whole, cork

Object Number:: A163802 Pt6

type:: stopper

Mother of pearl button

Materials:: whole, mother of pearl

Object Number:: A163802 Pt7

type:: button

Cork stopper

Materials:: whole, cork

Object Number:: A163802 Pt8

type:: stopper

Glass mortar

Materials:: whole, glass

Object Number:: A163802 Pt9

type:: mortar

Glass pestle

Materials:: whole, glass

Object Number:: A163802 Pt10

type:: pestle

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.