Medicine chest

Made:: 1847-1900

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Medicine chest, mahogany with plush interior, with total of 23 glass bottles (9 labelled), wooden case with 4 tortoiseshell tweezers, metal tube, square glass plate, 2 metal drug boxes, apothecary scales with 13 weights glass mortar and pestle, English, 1847-1900

Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Object Number:: 1981-1325

Materials:: case, mahogany, case, brass, interior, wood, interior, velvet plush, contents, glass, contents, metal, contents, brass, contents, steel, contents, silver and contents, tortoiseshell

Measurements:: whole: length 260 mm
whole: width 190 mm
whole: height 220 mm

type:: medicine chests

credit:: Gift of W N L Haynes

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Parts

Square glass bottle with round glass stopper full of Aromatic Confection powder, one label reads: 'P.Conf:'

Glass bottle with glass stopper full of Aromatic Confection powder (chalk and opium). 115 mm x 52 mm x 54 mm, 290g. Unknown maker, English, 1847-1900.

Measurements:: overall: 115 mm x 52 mm x 54 mm, 290g

Materials:: complete , glass , opium and chalk

Object Number:: 1981-1325 Pt1

type:: bottle and opium

Square glass bottle with round glass stopper half-full of powdered opium (Pulv. Opii). 60 mm x 34 mm x 25 mm

Small glass bottle with glass stopper half-full of powdered opium (Pulv. Opii). 60 mm x 34 mm x 25 mm, 48g. Unknown maker, English, 1847-1900.

Measurements:: overall: 60 mm x 34 mm x 25 mm, 48g

Materials:: complete , glass and opium

Object Number:: 1981-1325 Pt2

type:: bottle and opium

Square glass bottle with round glass stopper half-full of powdered compound ipecacuanha (Pulv. Ipecac Co). 60 mm x 34 mm x 25 mm

Small glass bottle with glass stopper half-full of powdered compound ipecacuanha (Pulv. Ipecac Co). 60 mm x 34 mm x 25 mm, 57g. Unknown maker, English, 1847-1900.