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Wooden military medicine chest

Wooden military medicine chest, rectangular box with hinged lid, iron fittings, red cross painted on top, 3 removable trays inside containing dressings, drugs, splints etc, German, 1914-1918

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Tin canister for saccharin, yellow painted with hinged lid, empty of contents

Tin canister for saccharin

Tin canister containing two drums of hydrogen ointment, yellow painted

Tin canister containing two drums of hydrogen ointment

Tin canister containing bottle of tincture of iodine, hinged lid, painted yellow

Tin canister containing bottle of tincture of iodine

Tin canister holding powdered salicylic acid, painted yellow with hinged lid

Tin canister holding powdered salicylic acid

Clear glass rectangle based bottle with glass stopper, metal clip and transfer label. To contain approximately 2 ounces of simple tincture of opium (laudanum). Contents mostly full.

bottle; controlled drug; opium

Tin canister containing dried calcium sulphate powder with two paper rolls full of the same square canister with hinged lid

Tin canister

Glass bottle for carbolic acid liquid, cut glass stopper, kept in canister, (see part 20)

Glass bottle for carbolic acid liquid

Tin canister containing 12 drums of salicylic acid ointment and 7 tubes of formaldehyde ointment, Sanitary depot, Frankfurt, supplier

Tin canister containing 12 drums of salicylic acid ointment and 7 tubes of formaldehyde ointment

Flexible spring tourniquet with canvas mesh, Georg Haertel, Berlin, maker

Flexible spring tourniquet with canvas mesh

1916-1917
Metal reel of zinc rubber plaster, 5m x 2 1/2cm long, Garde Korps Sanitary Depot, Berlin, maker, 1917

Metal reel of zinc rubber plaster

1917
Tin canister containing about 40 peppermint leaf tablets, painted yellow

Tin canister containing about 40 peppermint leaf tablets

Glass bottle for Peruvian balsam, glass stopper, metal clasp over stopper, with content

Glass bottle for Peruvian balsam

Glass bottle for pulv. glum arabic powder, glass stopper, metal collar and clasp, with content

Glass bottle for pulv. glum arabic powder

Two glass phials, one with a nickel-plated steel cap and the other with a painted steel cap; both phials contain Pulv Ipecacuanha and opium powder tablets (Pulv. Ipecac. op.) .3g., supplied by ‘Sanitary Depot 18’ to the German Army, unsigned, Frankfurt, Germany, 1917

Two glass phials containing Pulv Ipecacuanha and opium powder tablets

Small coil of catgut ligature inside cardboard drum, Berlin, 1917

Small coil of catgut ligature inside cardboard drum

1917
Four wooden splints culminating in plated tin cuffs

Four wooden splints culminating in plated tin cuffs

5 glass phials containing tartaric acid tablets, metal caps, supplied by Sanitary depot, Frankfurt, 3 phials broken, 1915

5 glass phials containing tartaric acid tablets

Tin canister containing four tubes of boric acid ointment supplied in Frankfurt

Tin canister containing four tubes of boric acid ointment supplied in Frankfurt

Clear glass phial for sodium carbonate tablets, phial marked "Tablett solvent", supplied in 1915

Clear glass phial for sodium carbonate tablets

Tin canister containing cork stoppers, hinged lid, painted yellow

Tin canister containing cork stoppers

Tin canister with hinged lid for bottle of carbolic acid liquid

Tin canister with hinged lid for bottle of carbolic acid liquid

9 packages of sterile muslin bandages, each containing 10 lengths 200m x cm, in blue paper wrappings, 1917

9 packages of sterile muslin bandages

1916-1917
Glass bottle containing boric acid powder, glass stopper, metal fitments, with content

Glass bottle containing boric acid powder

Glass bottle for potassium chloride, glass stopper with metal clasp, with content

Glass bottle for potassium chloride

2 glass phials containing pyraz phenyldin tablets, metal caps, supplied in 1915

2 glass phials containing pyraz phenyldin tablets

Glass bottle for spirit, cut glass stopper with metal collar and clasp, empty

Glass bottle for spirit

Glass bottle for Tincture of Chin. comp., glass stopper, metal neck collar and stopper clasp, with liquid content

Glass bottle for Tincture of Chin. comp

6 cloth packages containing lengths of pink dressings with bandage attached, 1917

6 cloth packages containing lengths of pink dressings with bandage attached

1917
8 glass phials, 5 containing "solvent" tablets, with metal caps, supplied in 1917

8 glass phials

1 blue paper package containing 3 sterile cambric bandages, 5mx7cm, prepared 1917

1 blue paper package containing 3 sterile cambric bandages

1916-1917
8 cartons of 10 ampoules containing morphine hydrochloride. Wrapped in paper, wrapped in twine (previously cut and retied) and formerly sealed with a green wax seal of the distributor. Inscribed with the contents and have a stamp bearing the legend Army Medical Store 7 Feb 1921' and also possibly 'fifth field medical core [sic]'. Packets inside consist of cardboard box with seperate lid. Internal boxes of morphine are of German manufacture made and dated 1917/18. Morphine hydrochloride is analgesic and narcotic but it also has central stimulant actions. The chief uses of morphine are for the relief of pain, the procuring of sleep where sleeplessness is due to pain, the arrest of haemorrhage, the supression of cough and the relief of and apprehension.

Parcel, with broken wax seal and twine, containing eight cartons of ten ampoules containing morphine hydrochloride

Glass bottle for aluminium acetotartrate liquid, glass stopper, neck collar and clasp of metal, half full of yellowish liquid

Glass bottle for aluminium acetotartrate liquid

2 glass phials containing wrapped acetylosalicyl acid tablets, a substitute for aspirin, metal cap

2 glass phials containing wrapped acetylosalicyl acid tablets

2 injury label booklets each containing 25 tags to attach to a wounded soldier with entries for information regarding identity; Katsch, Munich maker

2 injury label booklets

1915-1917
6 cardboard boxes containing 10 ampules each, for caffeine and sodium salicylate liquid, all six boxes sealed

6 cardboard boxes containing 10 ampules each

Canister, tin, containing metal tube of Molle ointment, hinged lid, painted yellow

Canister, tin

3 glass phials containing quinine hydrochloride tablets, metal caps, Sanitary depot, supplier, 1917

3 glass phials containing quinine hydrochloride tablets

Wooden military medicine chest case, rectangular box with hinged lid, without contents (see other parts for rest), German, 1914-1918

Wooden military medicine chest case

1914-1918
Glass bottle for lead acetate craystals, stoppered metal clip over stopper, with content

Glass bottle for lead acetate craystals

4 brown glass bottles for chloroform pro Narcosi liquid, glass stoppers, with content, supplied 1917

4 brown glass bottles for chloroform pro Narcosi liquid

Glass bottle for collodium ointment, glass stopper, metal neck collar and stopper clasp, with content

Glass bottle for collodium ointment

Glass bottle for caustic ammonium liquid, glass stopper, metal neck collar with clasp, content

Glass bottle for caustic ammonium liquid

2 glass phials containing rhubarb tablets with metal caps, supplied in 1915

2 glass phials containing rhubarb tablets with metal caps

3 glass phials, 2 containing mercurous chloride tablets, supplied in 1915

3 glass phials

Glass bottle for atropine sulphate tablets, stopper, metal clip over stopper, tablets inside glass phial

Glass bottle for atropine sulphate tablets

Cardboard box containing 10 glass ampoules with 0,0005g hyoscine hydrobromide, Frankfurt, 1916

Cardboard box containing 10 glass ampoules

8 packages of sterile cambric bandages, each containing 3 lengths 5mx7cm in blue paper, wrapping with instructions for use, 1917

8 packages of sterile cambric bandages

1916-1917
Brown glass bottle for silver nitrate crystals, glass stopper, metal clasp over stopper, with content

Brown glass bottle for silver nitrate crystals

Glass bottle for anhydrous sodium sulphate or sal carolinum factitium, stoppered, metal clasp and clip, with content

Glass bottle for anhydrous sodium sulphate or sal carolinum factitium

3 glass phials containing albumin tannate tablets, with metal caps, supplied in 1917

3 glass phials containing albumin tannate tablets