Medicine chest

Made:: 1880-1920

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Medicine chest, with 22 glass bottles, 11 labelled, envelope
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Medicine chest, with 22 glass bottles, 11 labelled, envelope, 2 glass measuring cylinders, glass pestle and mortar, 2 confection glasses, late 19th or early 20th century. Some contents dated to Septembr 1916.

Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A630127

Materials:: handles and mounting, brass (lacquered), case, walnut (veneer) and hinges, brass

type:: medicine chests

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Parts

Bottle of spirit of hartshorn

Materials:: bottle, glass and stopper, glass

Object Number:: A630127 Pt1

type:: bottle

Bottle of tincture of arnica

Materials:: bottle, glass and stopper, glass

Object Number:: A630127 Pt2

type:: bottle

Bottle of castor oil

Materials:: bottle, glass and stopper, glass

Object Number:: A630127 Pt3

type:: bottle

Bottle for spirit of camphor

Bottle for spirit of camphor, empty

Materials:: bottle, glass and stopper, glass

Object Number:: A630127 Pt4

type:: bottle

Bottle of compound camphor liniment

Materials:: bottle, glass and stopper, glass

Object Number:: A630127 Pt5

type:: bottle

Glass bottle of Paregoric Elixir

Slender glass bottle with glass stopper and chamois cover full of Paregoric Elixir (camphorated tincture of opium). 123 mm x 30 mm x 42 mm, 216 g. Dispensed by Fletcher & Palme, English, 1880-1914.