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Left hand side - A700027, The Livingstone medicine chest, wooden box covered with natural coloured cow hide. Contains
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First time out exhibition showcase. Livingston's Medicine Chest, A700016.
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"Livingstone" medicine chest, used by Algot Lange on the Amazon expedition of 1911, by Burroughs Wellcome and Co., English, early 20th century
This battered medicine chest was taken by Algot Lane, a Swedish-American explorer, on his 1911 expedition to the Amazon jungle in Brazil. Lange wrote a book about his exploration of the area in 1912 called In the Amazon Jungle: Adventures in the Remote Areas of the Upper Amazon Basin. Unsurprisingly, the chest contains a large amount of quinine to help prevent and treat malaria, which was common in that area.
The medicine chest was advertised as the ‘Livingstone’ chest after David Livingstone (1813-1873). It was made by Burroughs, Wellcome & Co, who provided medicine chests suitable for a wide range of expeditions – these were often provided free of charge for publicity reasons. It is pictured here with another ‘Livingstone’ medicine from the same expedition (A700027).
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- Category:
- Materia Medica & Pharmacology
- Object Number:
- A700016
- Materials:
- case, felt, case, leather, case, wood
- taxonomy:
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- furnishing and equipment
- furnishing - artefact
- case furniture
- chest
- credit:
- Loan, Wellcome Trust
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