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Square glass bottle with cut-glass stopper approximately containing of 'Dover's Powder' (ipecacuanha, opium, and morphine). 57 mm x 37 mm x 37 mm.

Dover Powder

1801-1900
Ambler glass bottle of 100 compressed tablets of 'Aspirin compounded with Dover Powder' (aspirin, phenacetin and compound of ipecacuanha containing Dover Powder). 137 mm x 56 mm x 36 mm, 269 g. Printed label reads, '../ASPIRIN COMPOUND/WITH/DOVER POWDER/.../The proportion of Dover Powder in/ this tablet does not bring the product/ within the scope of the D.D.A./ PARKE, DAVIS/& COMPANY, LIMITED Inc U.S.A./HOUNSLOW near LONDON' Produced by Parke, Davis and Co., Ltd., English, 1920-1950.

Bottle of Aspirin compressed with Dover Powder

1920-1950
Green glass poison bottle with bakelite lid full of Dover's Powder tablets (TAB. IPECAC. ET OPII). By Wright, Layman and Umney Ltd., English, 1920-1960.

Poison bottle of Dover's Powder tablets

1920-1960
Salt glazed stoneware dispensing pot with metal lid for ipecacuanha and squill pills (PIL: IP c SCILLAE), with dried contents remaining. 83 mm x 72 mm diameter, 307 g. Made by Powell of Bristol, English, 1830-1906.

Dispensing pot of Ipecacuanha and Squill Pills

1830-1906
Packet of 10 ipecacuanha and opium powder tablets (Dover's Powder) in paper wrapping. 40 mm x 12 mm diameter, 6 g. From a German World War I medical field kit. Unknown maker, for German military use, from Cassel, Germany, 1914.

Packet of Ipecac and Opium tablets

1914
A bottle of 'Syrup of Poppies' with trace residues remaining, unsigned, England, 1870

Bottle of 'Syrup of Poppies' with trace residues remaining

1870
Square glass bottle with ground glass stopper one-third full of Dover's Powder (opium and ipecacuanha). 60 mm x 33 mm x 36 mm, 62g. Dispensed by G. French, English, 1880-1940.

Bottle of Dover's Powder

1880-1940
Glass bottle with bakelite top for 5 gr. Dover's Powder tablets (ipecacuanha and opium) with a small quantity remaining. 107 mm x 56 mm diameter, 172 g. Produced by the British Drug Houses Ltd., English, 1940-1960.

Bottle for Dover's Powder tablets

1940-1960
Narrow glass bottle with glass stopper full of Dover's Powder (opium and ipecacuanha). 65 mm x 20 mm x 35 mm, 71g. Dispensed by Decastro and Watson Chemists, English, 1831-1870.

Bottle of Dover's Powder

1831-1870
Square glass bottle with cut-glass stopper full of Dover's Powder (opium and ipecacuanha). 68 mm x 33 mm x 37 mm, 96g. Unknown maker, English, mid-nineteenth century.

Glass bottle of Dover's Powder

1831-1870
Steel canister, yellow painted, with pin-latch, containing five packets of ipecacuanha and opium tablets (Pulv Ipecac. opiat.), plus four loose tablets of the same, unsigned, Germany, 1914-1918. Used by the German military.

Steel canister, containing five packets and four tablets of ipecacuanha and opium tablets

1914-1918
Steel canister, yellow painted, with pin-latch, containing a packet of ipecacuanha and opium tablets (Pulv Ipecac. opiat.), unsigned, Germany, 1914-1918. Used by the German military.

Steel canister, containing a packet of ipecacuanha and opium tablets

1914-1918
Wooden chest made to hold 50 stoppered glass phials of tablets, containing 41 phials and some loose tablets. Chest: 125 mm x 235 mm x 125 mm, phial: 100 mm x 15 mm diameter. Substances within phials include phenazone, quinine, aspirin, mercury, ipecacuanha, and opium. Unknown maker, for military use, German, 1900-1918.

Wooden chest containing glass phials of tablets

1900-1918
Veterinary medicine chest, oak, with main storage compartment in three sections and a drawer, formerly the property of the Hawkins family, Staunton Court, nr. Gloucester, with various contents of the medicine chest including instruments, glassware, ointment jars, paper packets of medicine, and other medical preparations. The top drawer of the chest contains glass medicine bottles, mostly with glass stoppers. Some of the bottles are empty, although some still contain medical preparations. Other substances present in the glassware include antimony, digitalis, tobacco, ipecacuanha powder, ammonium hydrochloride, strychnine (in a green glass poison bottle), and calomel (mercury chloride). The removable bottom shelf contains metal ointment pots, and various medicines in paper packets, including aresnic. Unknown maker, English, c. 1870.

Veterinary medicine chest

circa 1860