Metal case
Metal case, with hinged lid lined with paper list of contents
- Object Number:
- 1995-799 Pt1
- type:
- case
Tin box for medicine bottles, probably from WWI British Military pattern medicine or First Aid chest, by Burgoyne Burbidges & Co, 1916
This tin box was probably part of a much larger first aid kit or medicine chest used during the First World War. The drugs in the box include opium for pain relief, quinine hydrochloride for malaria, and calomel with colocynth. Both calomel and colocynth have antiseptic qualities but when taken together they purge the body by causing vomiting. Calomel is also a drug associated with the treatment of the venereal disease syphilis – a major problem during the First World War.
Metal case, with hinged lid lined with paper list of contents
Square plastic bottle, for Phenacetin compound, empty, by Burgoyne Burbridges and Co.
Square plastic bottle, label unreadable, probably for Ipecacuanha, empty, by Burgoyne Burbidges and Co.
Square plastic bottle, label unreadable, empty, by Burgoyne Burbidges and Co.
Square plastic bottle, for Quinine Hydrochloride, empty, by Burgoyne Burbidges and Co.
Square plastic bottle, for Quinine Hydrochloride, empty, by Burgoyne Burbidges and Co.
Square plastic bottle, for Quinine Hydrochloride, empty, by Burgoyne Burbidges and Co.
Square plastic bottle for Opium with traces remaining. 30 mm x 45 mm x 30 mm, 23g. Printed label reads, '...300 Pill (no.4)/ PULV. OPII. gr.1/...' Produced by Burgoyne Burbidges and Co., London, 1916.
Black square plastic bottle, for Opium and capsicum with trace residues remaining. 30 mm x 50 mm x 30 mm, 21g. Printed label reads, '.../50 Pill (No.3)/ R. Pulv. Opii. Pulv. Capisi/ Camphorae (illegible)/ Pulv. Piper Nig./ aa. gr. 1/2/ POISON/...' Produced by Burgoyne Burbidges and Co., London, 1916.
Square plastic bottle, label unreadable, empty, by Burgoyne Burbidges and Co.
Square plastic bottle, for Calomel and Colocynth, empty, by Burgoyne Burbidges and Co.
Black square plastic bottle, for Lead and Opium, with traces remaining. 30 mm x 50 mm x 30 mm, 22g. Printed label reads,' ...50/ Pill (No.1)/ Pil. Plumbi c Opio/ gr 5/ POISON...' Produced by Burgoyne Burbidges and Co., London, 1916.