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Hypodermic syringe, glass and silver plated brass, in aluminium case, with syringe cleaner and two glass tubes with cork stoppers for Strychnine sulphate and Morphine and Atropine Sulphate (compound) tablets. Case by Allen and Hanburys, London, 1890-1910. Medicaments by Burroughs Wellcome and Co., London.

Case for syringe with phials

1890-1910

Engraved pocket syringe kit inside cotton draw-string pouch, containing a syringe and 7 glass phials of hypodermic tablets (morphine and atropine, morphine sulphate, atropine, cocaine, strychnine). Parke Davis & Co., English, c. 1930.

Engraved pocket syringe kit inside cotton draw-string pouch

1930

100 ml glass bottle full of Lomotil liquid (diphenoxylate hydrochloride and atropine sulphate). 115 mm x 43 mm diameter, 225g. Made by G D Searle and Co, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1960-1985

Bottle of Lomotil liquid

1960-1985

Amber glass bottle with metal lid half-full of atropine sulphate powder. English, twentieth century

Glass bottle containing atropine sulphate powder

Tin syringe kit with flip top containing a syringe, hypodermic needle, and six glass tubes of hypodermic tablets with cork stoppers. Overall: 80 mm x 45 mm x 20 mm, 71g. Glass tubes include: apomorphine hydrochloride, strychnine nitrate, morphine sulphate, atropine sulphate, cocaine hydrochloride, and a morphine and atropine compound, all in the form of hypodermic tablets. Parke, Davis and Co., London, c. 1940s.

Tin syringe kit with flip top containing a syringe

1935-1950

Clear glass bottle at various times used for diamorphine tablets (heroin), atropine sulphate tablets and ipecacuanha powder. 100 mm x 41 mm x 30 mm, 76 g. Made by E.B and S., English, 1890-1910.

Bottle used for heroin, atropine and ipecac

1890-1910

Metal syringe case with instructional leaflet, syringe wires, hypodermic needle and 10 glass tubes with cork stoppers of hypodermic tablets. 20 mm x 85 mm x 75 mm, 154g. Tube contents are: Morphine and atropine sulphate (compound), atropine sulphate, strychnine nitrate, trinitrin, cocaine, morphine sulphate, and apromorphine. Burroughs Wellcome, London, 1940s.

Metal syringe case with instructional leaflet

1935-1950