Medicine chest, wooden, made by Bach and Riedel, Berlin, containing bandages, 21 labelled glass bottles, 7 labelled tins, 2 labelled cardboard cannisters, various labelled wrappers and boxes, measures, pestle, splints, porcelain bowl, used by the German Army during the First World War, German, 1914-1918
Wrapper for bandage pack, prepared 1915. Rectangular in shape, beige coloured and open on one end.
Wrapper for bandage pack, prepared 1915. Rectangular in shape, folded paper in grey blue colour. Inscription stamped on side.
Bandage pack, split wrapper revealing linen wad tied with string, prepared in 1918.
Four linen bandages wrapped and packed in blue paper, prepared in 1918.
Four linen bandages wrapped and packed in blue paper, prepared in 1915.
Four linen bandages wrapped and packed in blue paper, prepared in 1917.
Four linen bandages wrapped and packed in blue paper, label on side, prepared in 1916.
Ten linen bandages wrapped and sealed in blue paper, label on side, prepared in 1915.
Ten linen bandages wrapped and sealed in blue paper, label on side, prepared in 1916.
Three linen bandages wrapped and sealed in blue paper, which has split and has a label on one side. Prepared in 1916.
Ten bandage pack, tied with string. Externally packed with blue paper, split with contents visible. Label on one side. Prepared in 1916.
Clear glass bottle corked with lead seal. Labelled 'Gas-Oedem-Serum', a gas gangrene antitoxin in liquid form. Cardboard cylinder wrapping, made by Hoechst.
Rectangular paper label, torn, for sphagnum moss dressings, '9x8|NOT STERILIZED|AND|NOT SUBLIMATED'
Bandage wrapped in cloth cover and tied as a parcel with string, prepared in 1917.
Two packages of 10 bandages, cloth covered individually packed and tied with string round whole pack, prepared 1918.
Tin, tall slender rectangular. For mollin ointment, simple hinged lid, pained yellow, empty.
Clear glass bottle, stopped with metal clasp, for aluminium autotartrate [acetotartrate], containing cloudy liquid, approx 70ml.
Canister, cardboard, cylindrical and capped at both ends. Containing fine white powder in wrapper, prepared in 1917.
Clear glass bottle, stoppered with metal clasp, for castor oil. Contains transparent yellow oil. Labelled with Ol. Ricini in black lettering.
Clear glass bottle, glass stoppered for arachis oil [peanut oil], containing yellow transparent oil, metal clasped stopper. Ol. Arachidis painted in black lettering on bottle.
Clear glass bottle, glass stopped, for liquid ammonium, metal clasp secures stopper. Residue at base of bottle. Black lettering for Liq. Amon. Caust.
Clear glass bottle, glass stoppered for turpentine oil, containing 10ml of oil. 'Ol. Terebinth' painted in black letters on bottle shoulder.
Clear glass bottle, glass stoppered for valerian tincture, empty.
Clear glass bottle, glass stoppered with metal clasp, for spirit, empty. Bottle painted with black lettering, 'Spiritus'.
Clear glass bottle, glass stoppered with metal clasp, for collodium, brown residue on base.
Clear glass bottle, stoppered, neck broken, for turpentine oil originally, newer paper label over top of original, partly illegible, white residue.
Clear glass, rectangular shaped bottle with rounded shoulder, straight short neck, bulbous rim, large flat-topped stopper. For boric acid powder, contains white powder. Inscribed on shoulder with 'Acid. boric. plv'.
Clear glass, rectangular shaped bottle with rounded shoulder, straight short neck, bulbous rim, slightly domed stopper. For boric acid powder, contains white powder. Inscribed on shoulder with 'Acid. boric. pulv'.
Clear glass, rectangular shaped bottle with rounded shoulder, straight short neck, flanged rim, slightly domed flat topped stopper with metal clasp. For acacia gum and powder. Inscribed on shoulder with 'Gumi arab. pulv'.
Clear glass, rectangular tall and slender shaped bottle with rounded shoulder, straight short neck, flanged rim, flat topped stopper with metal clasp. For camphor, containing large crystals. Inscribed on shoulder with 'Camphora'.
Clear glass, small rectangular bottle with rounded shoulder, straight short neck, flanged rim, broad flat topped stopper with metal clasp. For lead acetate, containing crystals. Inscribed on shoulder with 'Plumb. acetic'.
Clear glass, small rectangular bottle with rounded shoulder, straight short neck, flanged rim, broad flat topped stopper with metal clasp. For potassium iodide, containing crystals. Inscribed on shoulder with 'Kal. jodat.'.
Brown glass bottle, stoppered and sealed for narcose chloroform, empty. Circular bottle body, rounded shoulder, short flared neck, flanged rim, broad flat-topped stopper. Printed paper label attached.
Rectangular glass bottle with glass stopper for simple opium tincture, with traces of original contents remaining. Used by the German Army during the First World War, German, 1914-1918.
Tin, rectangular and painted yellow, for liquefied phenol. Hinged lid with sliding catch, loop ring on top. Inscription in red paint, 'Acid. carbolic. liquef.'.
Tin, rectangular and painted yellow, for cork. Hinged lid with sliding catch, loop ring on top. Inscription in black paint, 'Korke'.
Tin, rectangular and painted yellow, for salycilic talc. Hinged lid with sliding catch, sprinkler cap on top. Inscription in black paint, 'Pulv. Salicyl.c.Talc.'
Printed paper wrapper containing two oval shaped tins of salve for glass spectacles. Wrapper open at one end, like an envelope.
Porcelain bowl containing five packets of tablets each with five tablets, one pack crushed. Tablets are pyrazinamide and 'phenyldimazone'.
Porcelain bowl, possibly a mortar. White glaze.
Five packets of tablets, each containing five tablets, one pack crushed. Tablets are pyrazinamide and 'phenyldimazone'. Tablets contained within paper folded packets, printed with red writing in the main, one with black.
Cardboard box divided into ten compartments, containing seven ampoules, two used, of caffeine and sodium salicylate. Orange tinted box, paper hinged lid, with paper label in red printed text inscribed '0.2g Coffeinum=Natrium salicylicum'
Cardboard box divided into ten compartments, for ampoules of iodine and potassium iodide (not present). Salmon-pink tinted box, paper hinged lid, with paper label in red printed text inscribed '10g Jodum/3.5g Kalium jodatum'. Cotton wool wadding within.
Tall rectangular tin, painted yellow. For peppermint tablets, empty, painted brown internally. Hinged lid, pin and eye catch, loop ring on top of lid. Inscription painted on lid reads 'Fol. menth. pip| in Tabl.zu 2g.'
Tall rectangular tin, painted yellow.For boric acid ointment, base and part of side corroded, empty. Inscription on lid reads 'Ungt. Acid. boric.'
Tin, painted yellow, corroded. For strong mercury ointment, empty. Inscription on lid reads 'Ungt. Hydrg. cin.'
Two pieces of wood veneer splints, thin rectangular shaped, curved.
Four splints, narrow length of wood. Flat with tin mount at end riveted to the wood. Punched numbers 1, 2, 3 on three splints, one splint numberless.
