Tongue depressors wrapped in paper
- Made:
- 1928-1930 in United States
3 flat tongue depressors with rounded ends, wrapped in brown paper package. Paper torn with sections missing. Stored inside the first aid kit used by Rear Admiral R.E. Byrd on exploration flight to the Antarctic, 1930. Made by Burroughs Wellcome and Co., United States, 1928-1930
Details
- Category:
- Materia Medica & Pharmacology
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A700009/9
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product) and wood (unidentified)
- type:
- tongue depressors
- credit:
- Loan, Wellcome Trust
