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Quinine pills in box

Square glass bottle with glass stopper full of 'Warburg's Tincture' tablets (opium and quinine). 95 mm x 44 mm x 50 mm, 208g. Ferris & Co. Ltd , English, 1893-1900.

Bottle of Warburg Tincture tablets

1893-1900
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
Gutta percha tube containing Tabloid brand Warburg Tincture tablets, full of brown tablets. Height 107 mm x diameter 25 mm, 37.82 g. Inscribed: 'Burroughs Wellcome & Co. / TRADE MARK / 'TABLOID'/ BRAND/ Warburg Tincture / One represents / min. 30 (1.8 c,c.) /DIRECTION - The bowels having been / freely opened, four to eight may be taken/ with a draught of warm spirit and water,/and the dose repeated in three or four hours / if required. / As this preparation contains Opium in / small medical doses, it is labelled poison. / LONDON (ENG), SYDNEY, CAPE TOWN.'. Manufactured by Burroughs Wellcome and Co., London. English, 1906-1920.

Gutta percha tube containing Tabloid Brand Warburg Tincture tablets

1906-1920
Small glass bottle with glass stopper full of round 'Warburg' tablets (contain opium and quinine). 90 mm x 30 mm x 20 mm, 59g. Ferris & Co. Ltd , English, 1893-1900.

Bottle of Warburg tablets

1893-1900
Glass bottle with cork stopper and kid covering of Tabloid brand Warburg Tincture tablets (opium, quinine). 106 mm x 19 mm diameter, 32g. Burroughs Wellcome and Co, London, 1890.

Glass bottle of Tabloid brand Warburg Tincture

1890