Medicine chest

Made:: Unattributed

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Medicine chest, mahogany, supplied by Thomas Mills, Bakewell, Derby, containing 30 labelled glass bottles, 15 drawers of labelled powders and ointments (blistering ointment and unknown ointment in jar within lid, drawer containing 5 ointments in bottom left hand drawer inside front compartment), plasters (and leather for plaster in lid compartment, drawer in front cupboard containing plasters and bandages), lint, mortar and pestle, English, 1820-1880.

Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A630111

Materials:: chest, mahogany, bottle, mortar, glass, pestle, ointment jar, glass and handle and hinges, brass

Measurements:: height 350 mm
width 280 mm
length 220 mm

type:: medicine chests

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Parts

Bottle of Laudanum

Glass bottle with glass stopper containing laudanum (opium tincture). 105 mm x 32 mm x 43 mm, 155g. Chest supplied by Thomas Mills, Bakewell, Derby, English, 1820-1880.

Measurements:: overall: 105 mm x 32 mm x 43 mm, 155g

Materials:: glass , opium tincture and complete

Object Number:: A630111 Pt3

type:: bottle and opium

Confection jar of Aromatic Confection

Glass confection jar with paper lid containing Aromatic Confection. 33 mm x 40 mm diameter, 57 g. Chest supplied by Thomas Mills, Bakewell, Derby, English, 1820-1880.