Medicine chest

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Medicine chest, mahogany, supplied by Thomas Mills, Bakewell
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Medicine chest, mahogany, supplied by Thomas Mills, Bakewell, Derby, containing 30 labelled glass bottles, 15 drawers of labelled powders and ointments (blistering ointment and unknown ointment in jar within lid, drawer containing 5 ointments in bottom left hand drawer inside front compartment), plasters (and leather for plaster in lid compartment, drawer in front cupboard containing plasters and bandages), lint, mortar and pestle, English, 1820-1880.

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Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A630111

Materials:: chest, mahogany, bottle, mortar, glass, pestle, ointment jar, glass and handle and hinges, brass

type:: medicine chests

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