Two boxes

Made:: France and Turkey

Two boxes, each for containing 12 ampoules of morphine hydrochloride: one containing eleven and the other twelve ampoules, by E Merck, Darmstadt, Germany, possibly for the French and Turkish markets, 1900 to 1918. Morphine hydrochloride is powerful analgesic and narcotic, but it also has stimulant actions. The chief uses of morphine are for the relief of pain, the procuring of sleep where sleeplessness is due to pain, the arrest of haemorrhage, the suppression of cough and the relief of anxiety and apprehension.

Details

Category:: Emergency Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A652335 Pt5

type:: box

credit:: Wellcome Trust

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Cardboard box

Cardboard box, containing eleven ampoules of morphine hydrochloride, by E Merck, Darmstadt, Germany, possibly for the French and Turkish, 1900 to 1918

Measurements:: box (lying flat): Height = 10 mm x Width = 128 mm x Depth = 60 mm,
ampoule (lying flat): Width = 50 mm x Diameter = 10 mm,

Materials:: cardboard , glass and paper (fibre product)

Object Number:: A652335/5/1

type:: ampoules and morphine

Cardboard box

Cardboard box, containing twelve ampoules of morphine hydrochloride, by E Merck, Darmstadt, Germany, possibly for the French and Turkish, 1900 to 1918