Wooden military medicine chest

Made:
Germany

Wooden military medicine chest, rectangular box with hinged lid, iron fittings, red cross painted on top, 3 removable trays inside containing dressings, drugs, splints etc, German, 1914-1918

8 packages of sterile cambric bandages, each containing 3 lengths 5mx7cm in blue paper, wrapping with instructions for use, 1917

8 packages of sterile cambric bandages

1916-1917
9 packages of sterile muslin bandages, each containing 10 lengths 200m x cm, in blue paper wrappings, 1917

9 packages of sterile muslin bandages

1916-1917
1 blue paper package containing 3 sterile cambric bandages, 5mx7cm, prepared 1917

1 blue paper package containing 3 sterile cambric bandages

1916-1917
6 cloth packages containing lengths of pink dressings with bandage attached, 1917

6 cloth packages containing lengths of pink dressings with bandage attached

1917
2 injury label booklets each containing 25 tags to attach to a wounded soldier with entries for information regarding identity; Katsch, Munich maker

2 injury label booklets

1915-1917
Metal reel of zinc rubber plaster, 5m x 2 1/2cm long, Garde Korps Sanitary Depot, Berlin, maker, 1917

Metal reel of zinc rubber plaster

1917
Small coil of catgut ligature inside cardboard drum, Berlin, 1917

Small coil of catgut ligature inside cardboard drum

1917
Flexible spring tourniquet with canvas mesh, Georg Haertel, Berlin, maker

Flexible spring tourniquet with canvas mesh

1916-1917
8 cartons of 10 ampoules containing morphine hydrochloride. Wrapped in paper, wrapped in twine (previously cut and retied) and formerly sealed with a green wax seal of the distributor. Inscribed with the contents and have a stamp bearing the legend Army Medical Store 7 Feb 1921' and also possibly 'fifth field medical core [sic]'. Packets inside consist of cardboard box with seperate lid. Internal boxes of morphine are of German manufacture made and dated 1917/18. Morphine hydrochloride is analgesic and narcotic but it also has central stimulant actions. The chief uses of morphine are for the relief of pain, the procuring of sleep where sleeplessness is due to pain, the arrest of haemorrhage, the supression of cough and the relief of and apprehension.

Parcel, with broken wax seal and twine, containing eight cartons of ten ampoules containing morphine hydrochloride

Cardboard box containing 10 glass ampoules for hyoscine hydrobromide, 1916

Cardboard box containing 10 glass ampoules for hyoscine hydrobromide

Cardboard box containing 10 glass ampoules with 0,0005g hyoscine hydrobromide, Frankfurt, 1916

Cardboard box containing 10 glass ampoules

Box containing 5 clear glass ampoules for dilute hydrochloric acid, Sanitary Depot 18, Frankfurt, supplier, 1917

Box containing 5 clear glass ampoules for dilute hydrochloric acid

Tin canister containing dried calcium sulphate powder with two paper rolls full of the same square canister with hinged lid

Tin canister

Tin canister containing 12 drums of salicylic acid ointment and 7 tubes of formaldehyde ointment, Sanitary depot, Frankfurt, supplier

Tin canister containing 12 drums of salicylic acid ointment and 7 tubes of formaldehyde ointment

Tin canister containing four tubes of boric acid ointment supplied in Frankfurt

Tin canister containing four tubes of boric acid ointment supplied in Frankfurt

Tin canister containing cork stoppers, hinged lid, painted yellow

Tin canister containing cork stoppers

Tin canister containing two drums of hydrogen ointment, yellow painted

Tin canister containing two drums of hydrogen ointment

Tin canister containing about 40 peppermint leaf tablets, painted yellow

Tin canister containing about 40 peppermint leaf tablets

6 cardboard boxes containing 10 ampules each, for caffeine and sodium salicylate liquid, all six boxes sealed

6 cardboard boxes containing 10 ampules each

Tin canister with hinged lid for bottle of carbolic acid liquid

Tin canister with hinged lid for bottle of carbolic acid liquid

Glass bottle for carbolic acid liquid, cut glass stopper, kept in canister, (see part 20)

Glass bottle for carbolic acid liquid

Tin canister for saccharin, yellow painted with hinged lid, empty of contents

Tin canister for saccharin

Tin canister holding powdered salicylic acid, painted yellow with hinged lid

Tin canister holding powdered salicylic acid

Tin canister containing bottle of tincture of iodine, hinged lid, painted yellow

Tin canister containing bottle of tincture of iodine

Glass bottle for tincture of iodine, glass stopper, inside tin canister, see part 24

Glass bottle for tincture of iodine

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Details

Category:
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A656602
type:
chest

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