Homeopathic medicine chest, 1870-1910

Made:
1870-1910 in Cheltenham
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

Details

Category:
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A630195
Materials:
walnut, ? material, brass and lining, leatherette
Measurements:
length 212 mm
width 160 mm
height 144 mm
type:
medicine chest

Parts

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

Coffee pills

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

Object Number:
A630195/2
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle with cork, containing white pills of ignatia.

Ignatia pills

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

Object Number:
A630195/3
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle with cork, containing white pills of sumach.

Rhus toxicodendron pills

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

Object Number:
A630195/4
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle with cork, containing white pills of arsenic.

Arsenic pills

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

Object Number:
A630195/5
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle with cork, containing white pills of pulsatilla.

Pulsatilla pills

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

Object Number:
A630195/6
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle with cork, empty, used for ignatia.

Ignatia

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

Object Number:
A630195/7
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle with lip and cork, empty, used for 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, empty, used for pulsatilla.

Clear glass bottle with lip and cork

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

Object Number:
A630195/9
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle, with lip and cork, empty, used for ipecacuanha.

Ipecacuanha

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

Object Number:
A630195/10
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle, with lip and cork, empty, used for bittersweet.

Dulcamara

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

Object Number:
A630195/11
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle, with lip and cork, empty, used for kalium bichromate.

Potassium dichromate

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

Object Number:
A630195/12
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle, with lip, empty, used for tincture of sulphur.

Sulphur

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

Object Number:
A630195/13
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle, with lip and cork, empty, used for aconite.

Aconite

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

Object Number:
A630195/14
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle, with lip ad cork, used for arnica solution.

Arnica

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

Object Number:
A630195/15
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle with cork, containing some white powder of liver of sulphur.

Hepar sulphar powder

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

Object Number:
A630195/17
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle with cork, empty, used for preparation of sumach.

Rhus toxicodendron

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

Object Number:
A630195/18
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle with lip and cork, empty, used for white bryony, inside cylindrical cardboard container.

Bryony

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

Object Number:
A630195/19
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle with glass stopper and leather wrapper, empty, used for ruta lotion.

Rue

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

Object Number:
A630195/20
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle with glass stopper and leather wrapper, containing yellow solution of arnica.

Arnica solution

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

Object Number:
A630195/21
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle with glass stopper and leather wrapping, containing brown solutionn of marigold.

Calendula solution

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

Object Number:
A630195/22
type:
bottle
Clear glass bottle, with glass stopper and leather wrapper, empty, used for cantharides.

Spanish fly

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

Object Number:
A630195/23
type:
bottle
Bone scoop.

Scoop

Bone scoop.

Object Number:
A630195/24
type:
scoop
Strip of plaster in leatherette case inscribed calendula and tied with red ribbon.

Calendula

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

Object Number:
A630195/25
type:
calendula
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

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

Measurements:
length 212 mm
width 160 mm
height 144 mm
Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy) , leatherette and walnut (wood)
Object Number:
A630195/26
type:
medicine chest

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