Homeopathic medicine chest, 1870-1910

Homeopathic medicine chest, 1870-1910

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Medicine chest, walnut(?), containing 24 glass labelled bottles of homeopathic medicines, bone scoop and calendula plaster, inscribed inside lid Joseph James, Cheltenham, English, 1870-1910

Parts

Coffee pills

Coffee pills

Clear glass bottle with cork, containing white pills of coffee.

Object Number:
A630195/2
type:
bottle
Ignatia pills

Ignatia pills

Clear glass bottle with cork, containing white pills of ignatia.

Object Number:
A630195/3
type:
bottle
Rhus toxicodendron pills

Rhus toxicodendron pills

Clear glass bottle with cork, containing white pills of sumach.

Object Number:
A630195/4
type:
bottle
Arsenic pills

Arsenic pills

Clear glass bottle with cork, containing white pills of arsenic.

Object Number:
A630195/5
type:
bottle
Pulsatilla pills

Pulsatilla pills

Clear glass bottle with cork, containing white pills of pulsatilla.

Object Number:
A630195/6
type:
bottle
Ignatia

Ignatia

Clear glass bottle with cork, empty, used for ignatia.

Object Number:
A630195/7
type:
bottle
Belladonna

Belladonna

Clear glass bottle with lip and cork, empty, used for belladonna.

Object Number:
A630195/8
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle with lip and cork

Clear glass bottle with lip and cork

Clear glass bottle with lip and cork, empty, used for pulsatilla.

Object Number:
A630195/9
type:
bottle
Ipecacuanha

Ipecacuanha

Clear glass bottle, with lip and cork, empty, used for ipecacuanha.

Object Number:
A630195/10
type:
bottle
Dulcamara

Dulcamara

Clear glass bottle, with lip and cork, empty, used for bittersweet.

Object Number:
A630195/11
type:
bottle
Potassium dichromate

Potassium dichromate

Clear glass bottle, with lip and cork, empty, used for kalium bichromate.

Object Number:
A630195/12
type:
bottle
Sulphur

Sulphur

Clear glass bottle, with lip, empty, used for tincture of sulphur.

Object Number:
A630195/13
type:
bottle
Aconite

Aconite

Clear glass bottle, with lip and cork, empty, used for aconite.

Object Number:
A630195/14
type:
bottle
Arnica

Arnica

Clear glass bottle, with lip ad cork, used for arnica solution.

Object Number:
A630195/15
type:
bottle
Hepar sulphar powder

Hepar sulphar powder

Clear glass bottle with cork, containing some white powder of liver of sulphur.

Object Number:
A630195/17
type:
bottle
Rhus toxicodendron

Rhus toxicodendron

Clear glass bottle with cork, empty, used for preparation of sumach.

Object Number:
A630195/18
type:
bottle
Bryony

Bryony

Clear glass bottle with lip and cork, empty, used for white bryony, inside cylindrical cardboard container.

Object Number:
A630195/19
type:
bottle
Rue

Rue

Clear glass bottle with glass stopper and leather wrapper, empty, used for ruta lotion.

Object Number:
A630195/20
type:
bottle
Arnica solution

Arnica solution

Clear glass bottle with glass stopper and leather wrapper, containing yellow solution of arnica.

Object Number:
A630195/21
type:
bottle
Calendula solution

Calendula solution

Clear glass bottle with glass stopper and leather wrapping, containing brown solutionn of marigold.

Object Number:
A630195/22
type:
bottle
Spanish fly

Spanish fly

Clear glass bottle, with glass stopper and leather wrapper, empty, used for cantharides.

Object Number:
A630195/23
type:
bottle
Scoop

Scoop

Bone scoop.

Object Number:
A630195/24
type:
scoop
Calendula

Calendula

Strip of plaster in leatherette case inscribed calendula and tied with red ribbon.

Object Number:
A630195/25
type:
calendula
Homeopathic medicine chest, 1870-1910

Homeopathic medicine chest, 1870-1910

Medicine chest, walnut(?), containing 24 glass labelled bottles of homeopathic medicines, bone scoop and calendula plaster, inscribed inside lid Joseph James, Cheltenham, English, 1870-1910

Materials:
walnut, ? material , brass and lining, leatherette
Object Number:
A630195/26
type:
medicine chest