Medicine chest

Made:
1908-1935 in London
Medicine chest, metal, containing `Tabloid' products

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Medicine chest, metal, containing `Tabloid' products
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Medicine chest, metal, containing `Tabloid' products, owned by Roy C. Andrews of American Museum of Natural History, made by Burroughs Wellcome and Co, London, 1908-1935

Details

Category:
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A700021
Materials:
metal, japanned
type:
medicine chest

Parts

bottle; controlled drug; opium

bottle; controlled drug; opium

Clear glass, rectangle-based bottle with glass stopper and paper label. To contain 'Tabloid' brand of Opium and Rhubarb Compound tablets. Manufactured by Burroughs, Wellcome and Co. Believed to have been used for stomach disorders.

Materials:
glass and stopper, glass
Object Number:
A700021 Pt20
type:
bottle and opium
Bottle of compressed Dover Powder tablets

Bottle of compressed Dover Powder tablets

Glass bottle with flat glass stopper full of Tabloid brand Dover Powder tablets (ipecac and opium). 78 mm x 45 mm x 32 mm, 103 g. Prepared by Burroughs Wellcome and Co., London, 1908-1935.

Materials:
glass , complete , opium and ipecac
Object Number:
A700021 Pt21
type:
bottle and opium
bottle; controlled drug; opium

bottle; controlled drug; opium

Glass bottle with glass stopper and paper label. To contain Soloid brand of Lead and Opium tablets. Soloid tablets to be mixed with water to create a lotion.

Materials:
glass and stopper, glass
Object Number:
A700021 Pt22
type:
bottle and opium
phial; controlled drug; cocaine

phial; controlled drug; cocaine

Glass vial with cork stopper containing approximately 25 hypodermic tablets consisting of 1/6 grain of cocaine hydrochloride. 'Cocaine is the oldest local aneathetic but because of the systemic effects and danger of causing addiction its use is now entirely to opthalmic surgery and surgery of the ear, nose and throat' (Martindale, 25th Edition, 1967, pg 1163).

Materials:
glass
Object Number:
A700021 Pt23
type:
phial and cocaine