Wooden chest with hinged front and hinged lid, containing 14 glass bottles, 10 cylindrical pewter ointment pots and cardboard containers, with 117 packets, well stocked with contents including gold foil prepared by Prozet of Orleans and box of scales and weights by Pourin of Paris, part of Debacq collection, French, 1751-1850
Details
- Category:
- Materia Medica & Pharmacology
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A23862
- Materials:
- mahogany, ? material, iron, lining (lid), silk and lining (lid), braid
- type:
- medicine chests
Parts
Glass bottle from medicine chest
Two glass bottles from medicine chest
Pale green glass bottle from medicine chest
Bottle of ‘Hoffman’s Visceral Elixir’ from medicine chest
Bottle of ‘Baume du Commandeur' from medicine chest
Bottle for ‘Liqueur Minerale Hoffman’s Anodyne' from medicine chest
Bottle for ‘Eau de Luce’ from medicine chest
Bottle of liquid laudanum from medicine chest
Glass bottle from medicine chest
Glass bottle with gold leaf from medicine chest
Bottle for ‘Perclorato du Potasio' from medicine chest
Pewter container for ‘Confectio de hyacintho’ from medicine chest
- Materials:
- pewter (tin, antimony, copper alloy)
- Object Number:
- A23862/13
- type:
- container - receptacle , materia medica and medicine chest
Container of Andromeda Theriac from medicine chest
Pewter container of ‘Catholicum’ from medicine chest
- Materials:
- pewter (tin, antimony, copper alloy)
- Object Number:
- A23862/15
- type:
- container - receptacle , materia medica and medicine chest
Pewter container from medicine chest
- Materials:
- pewter (tin, antimony, copper alloy)
- Object Number:
- A23862/16
- type:
- container - receptacle and medicine chest
Container of ‘Tamarind’ with two paper packets of caked Gum Arabic and Powder from medicine chest
- Materials:
- cardboard and paper (fibre product)
- Object Number:
- A23862/17
- type:
- container - receptacle , materia medica and medicine chest
Container of Pods from medicine chest
- Materials:
- cardboard
- Object Number:
- A23862/18
- type:
- container - receptacle , materia medica and medicine chest
Container of ‘Sené Mondé from medicine chest
- Materials:
- cardboard
- Object Number:
- A23862/19
- type:
- container - receptacle , materia medica and medicine chest
Container of ‘Manne’ from medicine chest
Container with four tins of ointment from medicine chest
- Materials:
- cardboard and tin (metal)
- Object Number:
- A23862/21
- type:
- container - receptacle , tin , materia medica and medicine chest
Container with four separate tins from medicine chest
- Materials:
- cardboard and tin (metal)
- Object Number:
- A23862/22
- type:
- container - receptacle , tin , materia medica and medicine chest
Six packets of ‘Sel Essential de Quinquina’ from medicine chest
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product) and textile
- Object Number:
- A23862/23
- type:
- materia medica and medicine chest
Four packets of ‘Sel de Sedlitz’ from medicine chest
Six packets of ‘Poudre de Compte’ from medicine chest
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product) and textile
- Object Number:
- A23862/25
- type:
- materia medica and medicine chest
Packet of ‘Poudre de Sentinelle’ from medicine chest
Three packets of ‘Sel Sedatif’ from medicine chest
Four packets of ‘Poudre Tempernate de Stahl’ from medicine chest
Twelve packets of ‘Rhubarbe en Poudre’ from medicine chest
Six packets of ‘(anti-epileptic) Poudre de Guttette’ from medicine chest
Four packets of ‘Poudre Capitale’ from medicine chest
Twenty-four packets of ‘Poudre de la Princesse de Carignan’ from medicine chest
Five packets of ‘Ipecacuanha’ from medicine chest
Three packets of ‘Semen Contra’ from medicine chest
Seven packets of ‘Mercure Doux’ from medicine chest
Piece of Crystal Mineral in packet from medicine chest
Two packets of ‘Poudre Temperant Sedative’ from medicine chest
Packet of Ipecacuanha and Powder from medicine chest
Packet of ‘Yeux Jelreviche’ from medicine chest
Two packets of unidentified drug and powder from medicine chest
Packet of ‘Gumme Arabique’ from medicine chest
Packet of ‘Emetique’ from medicine chest
Twenty-two packets of unidentified emetic powderfrom medicine chest
Two packets of ‘Kermés Mineral’ from medicine chest
Scales with weights from medicine chest
- Materials:
- metal (unknown) and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
- Object Number:
- A23862/45
- type:
- scales - weighing device , weights and medicine chest
