Wooden medicine chest, 1893-1900

Made:
1893-1900 in Bristol
Wooden medicine chest, 1893-1900

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Wooden medicine chest, covered in leather, containing 22 glass bottles, 2 ampoules, 4 phials, bandage, box of beauty spots, 2 tins, tube of vaseline, surgical tape, waterproof plaster, instructions and contents list, by Ferris and Co. Ltd., Bristol, England, 1893-1900

Square glass bottle with cut-glass stopper containing Chlorodyne tablets (morphine hydrochloride, cannabis, nitroglycerine, capsicine and peppermint). 100 mm x 35 mm x 35 mm, 135g. Ferris & Co. Ltd , English, 1893-1900.

Bottle of Chlorodyne tablets

1893-1900
Glass bottle with glass stopper covered with white kid, containing Diarrhoea tablets, composed of 3 grams of bismuth subnitrate, 2 grams of pepsid. sacch., and 2 grams of aromatic chalk (not the variety with opium). By Ferris & Co Ltd., Bristol, United Kingdom, 1893-1900

Bottle of Diarrhoea tablets

1893-1900
Square glass bottle with chamois-covered stopper full of 'Brown Compound Mixture' tablets (opium, benzoic acid, camphor, antimony, anise and ammonia chloride). 95 mm x 44 mm x 50 mm, 209g. Ferris & Co. Ltd , English, 1893-1900.

Bottle of Brown Mixture Compound tablets

1893-1900
Square glass bottle with glass stopper full of 'Warburg's Tincture' tablets (opium and quinine). 95 mm x 44 mm x 50 mm, 208g. Ferris & Co. Ltd , English, 1893-1900.

Bottle of Warburg Tincture tablets

1893-1900
Small glass bottle with glass stopper full of round 'Warburg' tablets (contain opium and quinine). 90 mm x 30 mm x 20 mm, 59g. Ferris & Co. Ltd , English, 1893-1900.

Bottle of Warburg tablets

1893-1900
Two ampoules of Sal Volatile

Two ampoules of Sal Volatile

Clear glass bottle containing a glass corked phial of atropine opthalmic tablets, and a glass corked phial of cocaine hydrchloride opthalmic tablets. Both phials are complete with content. Cocaine Hydrochloride phial is inscribed: 'OPTHALMIC TABLETS / (Ferris) Ref OC 2. / COCAIN. HYDROCH., / 1/50gr. / POISON / Ferris & Co. Ld. [sic] Bristol.'. Phials made by Ferris and Co. Ltd., Bristol. English, 1890-1900.

Glass bottle containing a phial of adrenaline opthalmic tablets, and a phial of cocaine hydrchloride opthalmic tablets.

1890-1900

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Details

Category:
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A655805
Materials:
leather, brass, velvet and wood
Measurements:
height 123 mm
length 315 mm
depth 167 mm
type:
medicine chest

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