Medicine chest

Made:
1880-1910

Medicine chest, leather covered, for pocket, with 14 bottles, all labelled, designed by E. A. Kirby, c.1890

Details

Category:
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A630167
type:
medicine chests

Parts

bottle; controlled drug; opium

bottle; controlled drug; opium

Glass, bottle with glass stopper and paper label to contain seditive solution of opium (liquor opii seditivus). Some contents remain. It is prescribed by many practioners in preference to liquid extract of opium (extractum opii liquidum) and of opium (tinctura opii) for internal use but has the same action.

Materials:
bottle, glass and stopper, glass
Object Number:
A630167 Pt13
type:
bottle and opium