Medicine chest

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Medicine chest, wooden, containing 23 glass bottles (18 labelled) by various suppliers including R. Thomson of Calcutta, 19th century

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Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A181423

Materials:: chest, wood, handles and hinges, brass and lock, brass

type:: medicine chests

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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Parts

bottle; controlled drug; opium

Glass, bottle with cork and wooden topped stopper and paper label to contain pills of opium and calomel (mercury subchloride). Manufactured by Thomas Robson of Brighton.

Materials:: mercury subchloride , glass , cork , wood (unidentified) , paper (fibre product) and opium

Object Number:: A181423 Pt6

type:: bottle and opium

Bottle of Paregoric Elixir

Glass bottle with glass stopper for Paregoric elixir (camphorated tincture of opium) with trace amounts remaining. 95 mm x 40 mm x 40 mm, 117 g. Printed chemists label reads, 'PAREGORIC ELIXIR/ Medicinal Use.- As an anodyne in Coughs/ Dose.- Half to a tea-spoonful, in water/ Francis Sutton & Co. Chemists...'. Norwich, 19th century.