Leather covered medicine chest or case
- Made:
- 1851-1900
Leather covered medicine chest or case, brass lock hinged lid, hinged velvet liner with bandage inside lid, compartments for bottles, 30 in all (one bottle missing), removable tray containing phial, tablet box etc., bottles labelled and holding various drugs, English, 1851-1900
Details
- Category:
- Materia Medica & Pharmacology
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A656883
- Materials:
- wood, leather, velvet and lock, brass
- type:
- medicine chests
- credit:
- Yearsley, M.
Parts
Piece of lint dressing with wad of cotton wool
Piece of lint dressing with wad of cotton wool, kept under lid of chest, English, 1900-1920
Bottle of 'Regepyrin' and Opium tablets
Clear glass bottle for "Regepyrin" (antipyrine)and Pulv. Opii. (opium) tablets with cork stopper. 103 mm x 41 mm x 30 mm, 59 g. Handwritten notes on the bottle indicates it was re-used a number fo times, most recently for a mixture of 'Antipyrine' and 'Pulv. Opii' tablets. Boots The Chemists, English, 1890-1920.
Clear glass bottle for salicylate of soda tablets
Clear glass bottle for salicylate of soda tablets, now holding fine white powder, English, 1890-1920
bottle; controlled drug; cocaine
Glass bottle, colourless, rectangle based with cork stopper, topped with wooden cap, and paper label. To contain approximately 2 ounces of cocaine hydrochloride PB (1898). Only a small amount of crystals remain
Clear glass bottle
Clear glass bottle, for quinine bisulphate tablets, cork and wood stopper, with content, E.B. and S. maker, English, 1900
Clear glass bottle with cork stopper and wooden cap for menthol crystals
Clear glass bottle with cork stopper and wooden cap for menthol crystals, two oz bottle, Army and Navy Co-op, London, preparer, c.1900
Bottle of Febricula laxative tablets
Brown glass bottle of chocolate-coated Febricula (laxative) tablets. Printed label reads, '100/ Chocolate-Coated/ Tablets/ NO. 197/ FEBRICULA/ (Cold, Laxative)/ Quinine Hydrobromide../Ipecacuahna and Opium.../Aloin../Calomel.../Powdered Capsicum.../Tincture of Aconite...' Parke, Davis and Co., London, preparer, 1900-1930.
Clear glass bottle for pills of mercury based drug
Clear glass bottle for pills of mercury based drug, with content, English, 1871-1900
Bottle used for heroin, atropine and ipecac
Clear glass bottle at various times used for diamorphine tablets (heroin), atropine sulphate tablets and ipecacuanha powder. 100 mm x 41 mm x 30 mm, 76 g. Made by E.B and S., English, 1890-1910.
- Materials:
- present , glass , cork , wood , diamorphine , atropine sulphate and ipecac
- Object Number:
- A656883 Pt13
Clear glass bottle for tannic acid powder
Clear glass bottle for tannic acid powder, cut glass stopper, with content, English, 1851-1900
Clear glass bottle for potassium iodide crystals
Clear glass bottle for potassium iodide crystals, details same as part 14
Bottle of barbituric powder
Clear glass bottle for choidum diethyl barbituric powder (barbital) with glass stopper. 98 mm x 37 mm, 109 g. Handwritten label reads, 'Acidum/Diethyl/barbituric/Poison'. Unknown maker, English, 1851-1900.
Clear glass bottle for sodium sulphite crystals as part 14
Clear glass bottle for sodium sulphite crystals as part 14, with content
bottle; controlled drug; morphine
Clear glass square based bottle, with glass stopper, and paper label. Originally to contain approximately 2 ounces of solution of morphine hydrochloride. Contents evaporated, though some crystals remain.
Clear glass bottle for camphor tincture as part 14
Clear glass bottle for camphor tincture as part 14
Clear glass bottle for iodine
Clear glass bottle for iodine, same as part 14, but stained yelow
Bottle, with glass stopper, containing tincture of cannabis indica
Glass bottle, colourless, rectangle-based with glass stopper, and white and red paper label. To contain tincture of cannabis indica, of which some remains. Label states 'H.Meynell M.P.S., Family and Dispensing Chemist, The Pharmacy, Tenterden. From and Moore, Chemists to the King.'
Clear glass bottle for hyoscyamus tincture
Clear glass bottle for hyoscyamus tincture, as part 21, empty, English, 1851-1900
Clear glass bottle for styptic colloid
Clear glass bottle for styptic colloid, now a resin, as part 21, English, 1851-1900
Clear glass bottle for pepsin liquid
Clear glass bottle for pepsin liquid, label badly stained, as part 21, English, 1851-1900
Clear glass bottle for chloroform unspecified preparation
Clear glass bottle for chloroform unspecified preparation, as part 21, English, 1851-1900
Clear glass bottle originally for colchicum seed tincture
Clear glass bottle originally for colchicum seed tincture, now contains potassium bromide crystals, English, 1851
Clear glass bottle for bismuth subnitrate powder with content
Clear glass bottle for bismuth subnitrate powder with content, as part 26
Clear glass bottle for phenol crystals
Clear glass bottle for phenol crystals, with content, as pert 26
Clear glass bottle for tincture of belladona and other preparations
Clear glass bottle for tincture of belladona and other preparations, Dr.Knowles, preparer, English, 1851-1914
Clear glass bottle for glycerol liquid
Clear glass bottle for glycerol liquid, as part 29, English, 1900-1920
Clear glass bottle for spirit of turpentine
Clear glass bottle for spirit of turpentine, as part 29, with contents, English, 1900-1920
Clear glass bottle for sodium bicarbonate powder
Clear glass bottle for sodium bicarbonate powder, with content, E.B. maker, English, 1900-1920
Clear glass bottle for ammonium bromide powder
Clear glass bottle for ammonium bromide powder, as part 32, E.B. maker, English, 1900-1920
Clear glass bottle
Clear glass bottle, as part 32, for boric acid, empty, E.. maker, English, 1900-1920
Leather covered wooden medicine chest case
Leather covered wooden medicine chest case, without contents (see other parts for rest), English, 1851-1900
