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Bottle of the opiate painkiller 'Papine'

Medical Glass-ware

1890-1920
Glass bottle with cork stopper of Dr. J. Collis Brown's Chlorodyne Drops (Opium tincture, chloroform and cannabis) with original paper labelling. 102 mm x 26 mm diameter, 44 g. Dispensed by J.T. Damuford, English, 2nd half of 19th century.

Bottle of Dr J Collis Browne's chlorodyne drops

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1851-1900

Bottle of 'Papine'

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1920-1950

Pewter theriac container

Pharmacy-ware

1603

Syrup jar for poppy capsule syrup

Medical Ceramic-ware

1760-1860
Tin carton of Gee's Linctus Pastilles BPC (contains opium tincture). 19 mm x 78 mm x 89 mm, 104 g. Made by Smith Kendon Ltd., 132 Borough High Street, London, SE1, England, 1950-1965.

Carton of Gee's Linctus Pastilles

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1950-1965

Green poison bottle with lid labelled 'Opium Pulverat BP

Public Health & Hygiene

1964

Brown glass bottle of aspirin and opium tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1950-1970
Square glass dispensing bottle with glass stopper and chamois covering, full of Aromatic Confection Powder (contains opium). 108 mm x 36 mm x 37 mm. Unknown maker, English, after 1849.

Bottle of Aromatic Confection Powder

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1849-1915

Syrup jar for poppy syrup

Medical Ceramic-ware

1670-1770

Bottle for Dover Powder

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1937-1938
Square glass bottle with glass stopper used for Paregoric Elixir (camphorated tincture of opium) and Syrup of Squills, with traces of most recent contents remaining. 90 mm x 40 mm x 40 mm, 106g. Dispensed by Dadson of Manor Park, nineteenth century.

Bottle used for Paregoric Elixir and Syrup of Squills

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1900
Glass bottle with glass stopper approximately one quater full of Paregoric Elixir (camphorated tincture of opium). 110 mm x 50 mm x 50 mm, 275g. Dispensed by J. Young Pharmaceutical Chemist, Newport, Welsh, 1801-1900.

Bottle of Paregoric Elixir

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1900
Small glass bottle of compressed Dover's powder tablets with tin screw top from a small steel medicine chest. 70 mm x 20 mm x 25 mm, 30g. Labels on the chest reveal it was created for travellers to tropic areas. White paper label with black type face reads, ' Burroughs, Wellcome & Co/ 'Tabloids'/ of compressed/Dover Powder/5 gr./ Pulv. Ipecac. Co.)/ Directions.- 1 to 3 'tabloids'/ may be taken with a little water on/ retiring, to break up a cold, or an as-/astringent and anodyne in dysentery/ persistant diarrhoea or cholera, and/ for the relief of pain./ Snowhill Buildings, London, E.C.' The word 'poison' is stamped over the label in red. The term tabloid' medicines in compressed and measured doses was invented by Sir Henry Wellcome as early as 1884. Dover powder's key ingredient opium led it to be used as a cure for cholera, diarrheoa and the common cold. The mixture is usually comprised of opium, ipecac. and potassium sulphate. It was commonly used through the 1960s.

Small glass bottle of compressed Dover's powder tablets

Pharmacy-ware

1901-1930
2 litre glass bottle of Opiate Squill Linctus (Gee's Linctus), full. 300 mm x 100 mm diameter. Manufactured by Macarthys, English, 1960-1985.

2 litre glass bottle of Opiate Squill Linctus (Gee's Linctus), full

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1960-1985
Wooden box with sliding lid containing 'Cap. Papav. Alb', dried white poppy capsules. 35 mm x 102 mm x 70 mm, 41g. Prepared by the Apprentice Chemists Association, England, c.1880.

Box of dried poppy capsules

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1860-1900
Glass bottle labelled "Tabloid' Lead with Opium'. The bottle is black in colour, opaque, and square in shape. 'Lead with opium 4 gr.' written on the object in white lettering beneath the neck of the bottle. Sealed with a round stopper. Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, English, c. 1910.

Glass bottle labelled to contain lead with opium

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910
Glass dispensing bottle with trace residues remaining , labelled "LAUDANUM"(opium tincture). 96 mm x 26 mm diameter, 36 g. Printed pharmacy label reads, 'LAUNDUNUM. POISON/H.KING/FAMILY AND DISPENSING CHEMIST/ Post Office Street, Norwich/POISON'. Supplied by H. King, chemist in Norwich, English, 1880-1910.

Dispending bottle of laudanum

Medical Glass-ware

1880-1910
Square glass bottle with cut-glass stopper full of Chalk and Opium tablets (Tab. Creta cum Opii). 110 mm x 45 mm x 55 mm, 271g. Unknown maker, English, late nineteenth century.

Bottle of Chalk and Opium tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1851-1900
Blue glass poison bottle with broken cork stopper for Laudanum (opium tincture), with dried traces of contents remaining. 56 mm x 20 mm diameter, 18 g. Dispensed by Dinneford and Co., London, c.1834.

Blue glass poison bottle for Laudanum

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820-1840
Blue glass bottle with cork stopper of Neboline Compound No. 14, 'Demulcent and sedative', 'compound camphor tincture' (possibly containing opium). height 97 mm x width 33 mm x depth 22 mm, weight 58.24g. Meant to be inhaled using a vaporiser. Made by Oppenheimer, Son and Co., Ltd., English, 1910-1920.

Bottle of Neboline Compound No. 14

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910-1920
Slender glass bottle with glass stopper and chamois cover full of Paregoric Elixir (camphorated tincture of opium). 123 mm x 30 mm x 42 mm, 216 g. Dispensed by Fletcher & Palme, English, 1880-1914.

Glass bottle of Paregoric Elixir

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1880-1914
Two canisters of "Hypotan Papaverine" tablets (Bromide, Opium), with instructions, in original cartons. 62 mm x 29 mm x 28 mm, 35g (each). Outer carton and label on aluminium canister are green with blue font and decorated with a red geometric border. The inner label reads,HYPOTAN/PAPAVERINE/Complete muscular/ antispasmodic/INDICATIONS/ arterial hypertension/vascular spasm/...' By Polypharma Laboratories Ltd., English, 1910-1950.

Two canisters of 'Hypotan Papaverine'

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910-1950
Ceramic, creamware ointment jar with paper label and metal cap. To contain approximately 8 ounces of ointment of gall with opium (unguentum gallae cum opio). Galls are the excrecenses on the twigs of the dyers oak, a small tree tree indiginous to Minor and Persia. They are formed by the irritation caused by the disposition of eggs by the gall wasp. The principle constituent of galls in gallotannic acid. Galls are powerfully astringent and when mixed with opium, an analgesic, it is used as a reliever in haemorrhoids.

jar; controlled drug; opium

Medical Ceramic-ware

1850-1900
Square bakelite bottle of `Tabloid' brand Aromatic chalk powder with opium tablets, opium 1/8 gr. 120 mm x 40 mm x 40 mm, 64g. Printed label reads, 'Burroughs Wellcome & Co./ Tabloid Brand/ Aromatic Chalk Powder/ with Opium/ (Pulv. Cretae Aromat. cum Opio)/ OPIUM, GR. 1/8/ in each product of/ gr. 5...'. Manufactured by Burroughs Wellcome and Co., London, used in 1919.

Bakelite bottle of Aromatic chalk powder with opium

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1919
Glass bottle of liquid Laudanum (Opium Tincture), contains brown fluid, with glass stopper, from medicine chest, France, 1751-1850. Unknown maker, probably prepared by Prozet of Orleans, part of Debacq collection.

Bottle of liquid laudanum from medicine chest

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1750-1850
Clear glass, circle based jar with top and bottom necks, cardboard cover. Glass rod inside. Containing three lumps of Malwah opium, different sizes. Glass rod covered in sealing wax. Label bears the legend 'Made in a gentleman's garden in Malwah'.

jar; controlled drug; opium

Medical Glass-ware

1851-1900
Painted opaline glass bottle with glass stopper inscribed "Laud:Liq:Syd:" or Sydenham's Laudanum (opium tincture). 154 mm x 78 mm, 175 g. Unknown maker, possibly German, 18th century.

Glass bottle for Sydenham's Laudanum

Medical Glass-ware

1701-1800
Small round red box made of card containing 6 black pills of Dover's Powder (Pil Hyd/c Doveri). Overall: 15 mm x 20 mm diameter, 2g. Unknown maker, English, 1810-1850.

Small red card box of Dover's Powder pills

Therapeutics

1810-1850
Glass bottle with glass stopper of Laudanum (opium tincture) with traces remaining. 102 mm x 42 mm x 31 mm, 118g. Printed labels on front and back of the bottle read, 'LAUDANUM- POISON'. Unknown maker, 1801-1850.

Bottle of Laudanum

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1850
Small glass bottle with glass stopper half-full of Dover's Powder. 71 mm x 23 mm x 18 mm, 38 g. By Cannan and Brydon, London, early nineteenth century.

Glass bottle of Dover's powder

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1850
Bevelled glass bottle with glass stopper, containing brown residue of opium tincture. 95 mm x 17 mm x 16 mm, 41 g. England, 1840-1860.

Bottle of liquid opium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1840-1860
Cylindrical painted glass drug-jar with parchment cover, labelled "Laud. Opiat." (Opium Tincture), traces remaining. 117 mm x 63 mm diameter, 100 g. Unknown maker, probably Spanish, 17th or 18th century

Glass drug jar for Opiate Laudanum

Medical Glass-ware

1601-1800
Glass bottle with bakelite lid containing tablets of Aspirin and Dover's Powder (opium and ipecac). 103 mm x 56 mm diameter, 236 g. Prepared by The British Drug Houses Ltd., London, 1930-1960.

Bottle containing tablets of Aspirin and Dover's Powder

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1930-1960
Square glass bottle with chamois covering on stopper of Chloroform Liniment with Laudanum(opium tincture), bottle full. 132 mm x 44 mm x 44 mm, 272 g. Yellow chemists label reads, 'FOR EXTERNAL APPLICATION/THE LINIMENT/From Savory & Moore/...... /of Chloroform/ with Laudanum./....' Savory & Moore, English, 1870-1901.

Bottle of Chloroform Liniment with Laudanum

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1870-1901
Glass bottle labelled "Tabloid' brand Kino Compound Powder, B.P.'. The bottle is black in colour, opaque, and square in shape. 'P. Kino Co: Gr. 5.' written on the object in white lettering beneath the neck of the bottle. Sealed with a round stopper. Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, English, c. 1910.

Glass bottle labelled to contain kino compound powder

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910
Glass bottle labelled "Tabloid' brand Pargoric'. The bottle is black in colour, opaque, and square in shape. 'Paregoric' written on the object in white lettering beneath the neck of the bottle. Sealed with a round stopper. Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, English, c. 1910.

Glass bottle labelled as containing paregoric

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910
Gutta percha bottle with chamois covering containing 'Tabloid' brand gr. 5 Aromatic chalk powder with opium tablets (Pulv. Cretae Aromat. Cum Opio). 118 mm x 39 mm x 39 mm, 139 g. Prepared by Burroughs, Wellcome and Co. London, 1906-1920.

Tabloid Aromatic Chalk Powder with Opium

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1906-1920
Round card pill box with red paper covering for opium pills, with traces remaining. 22 mm x 30 mm diameter, 2 g. Unknown maker, English, 1831-1870.

Card pill box for opium

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1831-1870
Pewter canister with screw top containing the ancient medical preparation 'Diascorde' (contains opium). 52 mm x 23 mm diameter, 31g. Unknown maker, Italian, 1775-1850.

Pewter canister of Diascorde

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1775-1850
Square glass bottle with pewter lid for theriac (Teriaca), with trace contents. 85 mm x 37 mm x 37 mm, 72g. Unknown maker, Italian, 1771-1850.

Bottle for Theriac

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1771-1850
Square glass bottle with glass stopper approximately half-full of white coloured Lead and Opium pills. 65 mm x 32 mm x 32 mm, 68g. Unknown maker, English, first half 19th century.

Bottle of Lead and Opium pills

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1850
Glass bottle with wooden lid containing aromatic chalk with opium mixture (P. Creta Aromat. c Opii B.P.) 190 mm x 96 mm diameter, 640 g. By Savory and Moore Ltd., Standard Works, Lawrence Road, Tottenham, London, N15, England, 1910-1950.

Bottle of Aromatic Chalk with opium

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910-1950
Square glass bottle with ground glass stopper approximately one-quarter full of Paregoric Elixir (camphorated tincture of opium). Unknown maker, probably European, from the medicine chest used by Livingstone on his last journey, c. 1873.

Square glass bottle with ground glass stopper, of paregoric elixir

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1861-1873
Square glass bottle with chamois-covered stopper full of 'Brown Compound Mixture' tablets (opium, benzoic acid, camphor, antimony, anise and ammonia chloride). 95 mm x 44 mm x 50 mm, 209g. Ferris & Co. Ltd , English, 1893-1900.

Bottle of Brown Mixture Compound tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1893-1900
Square bakelite bottle of `Tabloid' brand `Warburg Tincture' tablets (quinine and opium). 120 mm x 40 mm x 35 mm, 90g. Printed label reads,' Burroughs Wellcome & Co./ TABLOID brand/ WARBURG TINCTURE/.../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.../As this preparation contains Opium in/ small medicinal doses it is labelled POISON...' Burroughs Wellcome & Co., London, 1900-1919

Bottlw of 'Warburg Tincture' tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1919
Blown-glass drug jar, cylindrical, with parchment cover, labelled "Laud. Cinnab.", containing a resinous mixture of opium, saffron and cinnabar (mercury (II) sulfide). 119 mm x 65 mm diameter, 167 g. Unknown maker, Spanish, 17th or 18th century

Glass drug jar of Laudanum Cinnabar

Medical Glass-ware

1601-1800
Square glass bottle with ground glass stopper for sedative opium solution (Liq. Opii. Sed.), with dried traces remaining. 68 mm x 35 mm x 30 mm. Unknown maker, English, c. 1805.

Glass bottle of sedative opium solution

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1800-1830
Tall glass bottle with glass stopper full of Aromatic Chalk Powder. 105 mm x 32 mm x 40 mm, 193g. Dispensed by J. Fuller for the Army and Navy Stores, London, c. 1870.

Bottle of Aromatic Chalk Powder

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1865-1890
Canister of "Warburg's Fever Pills" (contains opium and quinine). 70 mm x 60 mm diameter. Made by the British Drug Houses Ltd., London, 1930.

Canister of "Warburg's Fever Pills" (contains opium and quinine)

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1930