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Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries

Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries will completely transform the first floor of the Science Museum, creating a magnificent new home for the most significant medical collections in the world.

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Majolica pharmacy jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1730-1750

Pharmacy jar for bugloss

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725-1775

Pharmacy leech jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1831-1870

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

Glass pharmacy bottle with crest

Medical Glass-ware

1600-1800

Pharmacy jar for powdered quinine

Medical Glass-ware

1601-1700

Amethyst glass pharmacy bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1840-1900

Pharmacy vase for cinchona extract

Medical Ceramic-ware

1760-1860

Pharmacy storage jar used for theriac

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725-1755

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

Medical Ceramic-ware

1600-1625

Pharmacy storage jar depicting St John the Baptist

Medical Ceramic-ware

1501-1600

Pharmacy sign in the shape of a unicorn's head

Pharmacy-ware

1700-1870
Spanish pharmacy vase, 16th-17th century

Pharmacy vase

Medical Ceramic-ware

1550-1750
Large English pharmacy display jar, known as a specie jar, one of two, painted glass for Rhubarb with heraldic crest, 19th century.

Pharmacy display jar for rhubarb

Medical Glass-ware

1830-1900
Large English pharmacy display jar, one of two, painted glass for Peru Bark with heraldic crest, 19th century.

Pharmacy display jar for Peru bark

Medical Glass-ware

1830-1900
Wooden till with bell fitted, probably installed in top of old counter, twentieth century

Wooden till from old Hexham pharmacy

Pharmacy-ware
Bank of drawers, most of glass knobs, from the old pharmacy, Hexham, early 20th c.

Drawers from the old Hexham pharmacy

Pharmacy-ware
Counter base, part of a display unit with ornate front, from The Old Pharmacy, Hexham, early twentieth Century.

Counter base from old Hexham pharmacy

Pharmacy-ware

1850-1900
Upright from pharmacy scales, in form of Andromeda and Serpent, English, 1701-1850

Pharmacy scales form of Andromeda and Serpent

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1850
Left side display unit with wooden shelves inscribed 'Fine pharmaceutical products and all invalides requisites', part of the top section of a counter and display unit, from The Old Pharmacy, Hexham, early twentieth Century.

Side display unit from old Hexham pharmacy

Pharmacy-ware

1850-1900
Counter top display case with curved glass top from the old pharmacy, Hexham, early 20th c.

Counter top display case from the old Hexham pharmacy

Pharmacy-ware
Bank of drawers, and cupboards, most with glass knobs, from The Old Pharmacy, Hexham

Bank of drawers and cupboards from old Hexham pharmacy

Pharmacy-ware
Three bays of wooden shelves from the old pharmacy, Hexham, late nineteenth or early twentieth century

Three bays of wooden shelves from the old Hexham pharmacy

Pharmacy-ware
Ornate mirror and two display units with glass shelves inscribed 'Dispensing Department', part of the top section of a counter and display unit, from The Old Pharmacy, Hexham, early twentieth Century.

Ornate mirror and display units from old Hexham pharmacy

Pharmacy-ware

1850-1900
Earthenware pill tile, elongated octagonal, tin glazed, decorated with the Arms of the Society of Apothecaries, possibly Liverpool, 1751-1800

Pharmacy tile decorated with the Arms of the Society of Apothecaries

Pharmacy-ware

1751-1800

Wooden statue, lion holding a pestle and mortar

Pharmacy-ware

Dispensing pot for powdered quinine

Medical Ceramic-ware

1801-1830
Glass pharmacy bottle, Italian, with heraldic crest on one side and the motto "IN VINO VERITAS" on reverse, 17th or 18th century

Glass bottle, "IN VINO VERITAS"

Medical Glass-ware

1601-1800

Packet of pure quinine powder

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1890-1900
Clock mounted in tall glass and wood casing, with the inscription "William Wilson Gibson founded this pharmacy in the reign of King William IV", from the Old Pharmacy, Hexham, 1850-1910

Clock mounted in tall glass and wood casing

Pharmacy-ware

1850-1910

Cylindrical glass bottle containing cinchonidine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Drug jar for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

Pill tile with four short legs

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Decorative wooden marker

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1701-1900

Stone mortar with flat base and flaring sides

Pharmacy-ware

1501-1900

Small bronze bell shaped mortar

Pharmacy-ware

1590

Apothecary's spoon

Pharmacy-ware

Small white marble bowl-like mortar

Pharmacy-ware

1601-1800

Bronze bell shaped mortar with 2 bands of decoration

Pharmacy-ware

1592

Oval-shaped flask labelled "Sal. Tartar. R.V."

Medical Glass-ware

1601-1800

Red and amber solid stone mortar

Pharmacy-ware

1501-1900

Very large bronze mortar

Pharmacy-ware

1666

Carved ivory mortar depicting dragon

Pharmacy-ware

1600-1900

Display carboy with stopper on stand

Medical Glass-ware

1840-1890

Wooden mortar

Pharmacy-ware

1651-1850

Double-ended apothecary's spoon

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Glass flask labelled for Water of Bird Cherry Bard

Medical Glass-ware

1601-1800

Medicine measure or spoon

Pharmacy-ware

1700-1900

Glass flask labelled "AQ.S.FLOR.SALV" (sage flower water/tea) and "CIANURO DE MERCURIO" painted with monastic arms

Medical Glass-ware

1601-1800

'Tabloid' medicine chest used on 1924 Mount Everest Expedition

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1887-1924