tall rectangular mahogany medicine chest
- Made:
- 1831-1870
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tall rectangular mahogany medicine chest, with 13 glass bottles, 12 labelled, balance, several types of weights, packet of bicarbonate of soda, English, mid 19th century
Details
- Category:
- Materia Medica & Pharmacology
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A241815
- Materials:
- chest, mahogany, brass, lining, velvet and handle, brass
- type:
- medicine chests
- credit:
- Foster
Parts
Glass bottle of paregoric elixir
Rectangular glass bottle with ground glass stopper full of Paregoric Elixir (camphorated tincture of opium). 115 mm x 40 mm x 26 mm, 174 g. Dispensed by Davies & Co., London, mid-nineteenth century.
Brass and steel balance
Brass and steel balance, 2 pans suspended by silk threads, knife edge fulcrum, swan-neck beam ends, in wooden tray
Tall rectangular mahogany medicine chest case (without contents see other parts)
Tall rectangular mahogany medicine chest case (without contents see other parts), English, mid 19th century
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy) , mahogany (wood) and velvet
- Object Number:
- A241815 Pt30
- type:
- case
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