Brass bound drop front tryptich medicine chest with 24 bottles

Made:: 1810-1840 in London

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Brass bound drop front tryptich medicine chest with 24 bottles, 23 labelled, balance, 16 weights, 2 boxes of drugs, glass pestle and mortar, glass measure, plaster spreader, 3 cloth bandages, 1 adhesive bandage and packet, by Seabury and Johnson, 31-32 Snow Hill, London, England, 1810-1840.

Bottle of ammonia

Bottle for chloroform, empty

Bottle of Dovers' Powder

1810-1840

Bottle for rectified spirit of wine

Bottle for hartshorn liniment, empty

Bottle for hartshorn liniment

Square based clear glass bottle with glass stopper and paper label. Bottle containing approximately 2 ounces of tincture of opium (tinctura opii simplex).

bottle; controlled drug; opium

Bottle of ipecacuanha

Bottle for dilute sulphuric acid, empty

Bottle for dilute sulphuric acid

Bottle for spirit of sal volatile, empty

Bottle for spirit of sal volatile

Square glass bottle with glass stopper for Paregoric (camphorated tincture of opium) with trace amounts remaining. 35 mm x 110 mm, 135 g. Seabury and Johnson, London, 1810-1840.

Bottle of Paregoric

1810-1840

Bottle of magnesium carbonate

Bottle of potassium bicarbonate

Bottle of Sodium Bicarbonate

Bottle of potassium nitrate

Bottle of quinine

Bottle of ferrous carbonate

Bottle of ammonium carbonate

Bottle of white crystals

Bottle of iron and quinine citrate

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Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A630130

Materials:: chest, wood and binding and handles, brass (lacquered)

Measurements:: length 190 mm
width 280 mm
height 275 mm

type:: medicine chest

credit:: Wellcome Trust

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