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Black leather pocket dispensary belonging to Sir James Paget, Surgeon, containing 10 labelled glass bottles, sticks of opium confection, an envelope containing plaster, lint dressings etc., made by John Bell, 338 Oxford Street, London, England, 1840-1880.
Clear glass bottle with cut glass stopper for quinine powder, with contents, John Bell, preparer
Clear glass bottle with cut glass stopper, as part 1 but for bismuth carbonate, with content
Clear glass bottle with cut glass stopper, as part 1 but with leather cover and for rhubarb powder, with content
Glass, bottle with cork and wooden topped stopper and paper label to contain pills of opium and calomel (mercury subchloride).
Clear glass bottle, as part 4, but for colocynth, henbane, and blue pill, with content
Clear glass bottle with leather covered cut glass stopper for zinc sulphate crystals, with content
Small clear glass bottle with cut-glass stopper. leather cap and paper label. Containing a 10% solution of cocaine hydrochloride. Bottle contains some contents.
Small clear glass, circle-based bottle with glass stopper containing an unspecified quantity of powdered opium.
Small clear glass bottle, as part 8 but for calomel powder, with content
Small clear glass bottle, as part 8 but for antimony potassium tartrate powder, with content
Seven paper wrappers each containing a stick of confection of opium (20 grains each). Opium has an analgesic action and a narcotic action which is due to its morphine content. Opium acts less rapidly than morphine since it is more slowly absorbed. wrapper has been opened, the remaining 6 appear to be in the original sealed state.
Strip of black india rubber plaster, contained inside paper envelope
Pieces of canvas backed lint dressing in paper covering with piece of felt at front
Small glass bottle with glass stopper full of 'Black Drop' with POISON printed in red. 38 mm x 18 mm diameter, 9g. Dispensed by John Bell and Co., London, 1840-1880.
Black leather pocket dispensary case, without contents (see other parts for rest), by John Bell, 338 Oxford Street, London, England, 1840-1880.
