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Five miniature churchwarden style clay tobacco pipes in box

1880-1920

4 brown glass ampoules of suprarenin solution

1915

Glass ear trumpet

1760-1820

Four orange cuttle-fish eyes(?), used by the Incas

1750-1940
Cardboard box, opened, with folding lid containing 7 glass ampoules of morphine hydrochloride. Broken box. Box does not contain a file for de-capping the ampoule. The box is inscribed with the content and manufacturer details and a stamp 'feile im schachtel' meaning 'File in Box'. This item is believed to have been manufactured in Germany during the First World War and to have been issued for military use, though there is no label to prove this. Morphine hydrochloride is powerful analgesic narcotic but it also has central 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 supression of cough and the relief of anxiety and apprehension.

ampoules; controlled drug; morphine

1913
8 ampoules, clear glass, used for bromure de benzyle solution, with contents, in box, French, 1900-1918

8 ampoules, clear glass

1900-1918
8 clear glass ampoules of scopalaminum hydrobromicum solution, in cardboard box, for German military use, 1914

8 clear glass ampoules of scopalaminum hydrobromicum solution

1914
Cardboard box, opened, with folding lid containing 10 glass ampoules of morphine hydrochloride. Box does not contain a file for de-capping the ampoule. The box is inscribed with the content and manufacturer details and a stamp 'feile im der meaning 'File in Box'. This item was manufactured in Germany during the First World War and is believed to have been issued for military use. Morphine hydrochloride is powerful analgesic and narcotic but it also has central stimulant actions. The uses of morphine are for the relief of pain, the procuring of sleep where sleeplessness is due to pain, the arrest of haemorrhage, the supression of cough and the relief of anxiety and apprehension.

Cardboard box

1914
Cardboard box without lid containing 9 ampoules of morphine hydrochloride (morfium hydro-chloricum). This product dates from around the First World War and is believed to have been issued for German military use. Morphine hydrochloride is powerful and narcotic but it also has central 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 supression of cough and the relief of anxiety apprehension.

ampoules; controlled drug; morphine

1914