Rectangular medicine chest, 1831-1870

Made:: 1831-1870 in England

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Rectangular medicine chest with hinged lid, containing 21 glass bottles, 20 labelled, most by Hunt of Winchester, chest inscribed with name of Twinberrow, glass pestle and 2 glass jars, English, 1831-1870

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Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A655807

Materials:: mahogany, brass and velvet

type:: medicine chest

credit:: Berwyn-Jones, M.

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Glass bottle with leather cloth around the stopper

Glass bottle with leather cloth around the stopper. Bottle is labelled "Laudanum" and "Poison" in black and orange. Another orange label reads "Hunt, (late Gunner) Pharmaceutical Chymist Winchester". The bottle contains laudanum residue.