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Medicine chest used by David Livingstone, Europe, 1860-1873

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1861-1873

Medicine chest, c 1800.

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1780-1820

Medicine chest

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1870

Rectangular, iron chest with no contents. Handles at each end. False lock on the front, elaborate main lock with 12 bolts covering underside of the lid. Lock is pierced and engraved (four heads wearing Spanish helmets surrounded by elaborate floral trellis). Two keys. Reputedly medical, Spanish, 1600-1800.

Rectangular, iron chest with no contents. Handles

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1600-1800

Medicine chest, mahogany, with top and front hinge

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1880

Twelve items sewn to a wooden tray, possibly the i

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Rosewood medicine chest

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1831-1870

Medicine chest, leather case, carrying strap on to

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1863-1901

Medicine chest, wood with an inlaid front, winged

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1810-1850

Medicine chest, c 1800.

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1850-1900

Pharmacy chest, English, 18th century

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Medicine chest, mahogany, extensive contents include drugs from ten suppliers, four lancets, scales with glass pans, first half 19th century, much of the contents label

Laudanum bottles, c 19th century.

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1850

Mahogany medicine chest

Mahogany medicine chest, 19th century.

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1900

Portable domestic medical cabinet, hinged lid and front by S. Maw and Sons, with 19 unlabelled glass bottles, liquid measure, 2 confection glasses, balance and 20 weights, c1820

Portable domestic medicine cabinet

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1800-1840

Mahogany medicine chest with front opening, drawer containing glass pill tile, palette knife, 24 bottles of medication, 14 labelled jar of ointment, 18 phials of medication, 9 labelled, a few bottles and phials now empty, either English, or assembled in Calcutta, India, 1831-1900

Mahogany medicine chest with front opening, drawer

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1831-1900

Red rectangular box, containing 4 labelled bottles of assorted 'Palatinoid' pills and one large bottle of Liquid Helanin and Pepsin. 135 mm x 150 mm x 32 mm, 300g. Exterior of carton reads, ' Quality & Originatlity, New Century Pharmacy'. Made by Oppenheimer and Son, London, English, 1850-1920.

Carboard medicine chest with drugs

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1850-1920

Medicine chest, winged front, with an extensive set of bottles, including a large number of small ones in drawers, almost all with labels and contents, c.1840, [111 parts]

Medicine chest, winged front, with an extensive se

Therapeutics

1810-1850

Medicine chest, bottles from various suppliers, scruffy contents, from L.W. Wood of London, c.1830

Medicine chest, bottles from various suppliers, sc

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Italian triptych medicine cabinet, empty, wood, with iron fittings, Italian, 1600-1750

Italian medicine chest, 1600-1750.

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1600-1750

Medicine chest, mahogany, supplied by Cannan and Brydon, London, containing 8 glass bottles (7 labelled), 2 labelled packets, 2 labelled boxes, tongue depressor and a leech tube, early 19th century

Medicine chest, mahogany, supplied by Cannan and B

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Medicine chest with contents, 1870-1910

Medicine chest, 1870-1910.

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1870-1910

Wooden medicine chest, hinged lid, iron hinges and edging, broken lock with 2 keys, inner compartments dilapidated, empty, with label in lid, Richard Guille, Guernsey, maker and distributor, Guernsey, 1770-1820

Wooden medicine chest, hinged lid, iron hinges and

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1770-1820

Walnut homeopathic medicine chest, with 34 glass bottles, all labelled, and accompanying treatise on homeopathic medicine, 2nd half of the 19th century

Walnut homeopathic medicine chest, with bottles, late 19th century.

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1851-1900

Italian triptych medicine cabinet, mahogany, with iron fittings, empty, Italian, 1600-1750

Italian triptych medicine cabinet, mahogany, with

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1600-1750

Medicine chest, wooden, made by Bach and Riedel, Berlin, containing bandages, 21 labelled glass bottles, 7 labelled tins, 2 labelled cardboard cannisters, various labelled wrappers and boxes, measures, pestle, splints, porcelain bowl, used by the German Army during the First World War, German, 1914-1918

Medicine chest, wooden, made by Bach and Riedel, B

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1914-1918

"Tabloid" medicine chest in metal case, belonging to Henry Morton Stanley and prepared by Burroughs Wellcome and Co., London, 1880-1900

Medicine chest belonging to Henry Morton Stanley, late 19th century.

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1880-1900

Homeopathic medicine chest in walnut, containing 34 labelled bottles in main chest, 3 more in drawer, a china funnel and a scoop, possibly belonging to the Barlow family, English, 1860-1920

Homeopathic medicine chest in walnut, containing 3

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1860-1920

Medicine chest, mahogany, by W. Batka, Prague, containing 44 glass bottles (43 labelled), 8 labelled ceramic ointment jars, 11 test tubes, mortar, pestle and crucible stand, Czechoslovakian, 1850-1918

Medicine chest, mahogany, by W. Batka, Prague, con

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1850-1918

Medicine chest, hinged lid and one front drawer, mahogany, with 2 large pewter ointment boxes, mid 19th century

Medicine chest, hinged lid and one front drawer, m

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1830-1870

Medicine chest, tryptich front, with 15 glass bottles, all unlabelled, bone spoon, balance, two metal boxes, spare wooden lid and spare stopper, c1830

Medicine chest, tryptich front, with 15 glass bott

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1800-1860

Medicine chest, tryptich drop front, contents include 17 glass bottles, 10 labelled, balance and 26 weights, late 19th century

Medicine chest, tryptich drop front, contents incl

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1850-1900

Mahogany medicine chest, only a few contents including 5 unlabelled glass bottles, 3 glass cups, 1 pewter cup, a glass pipette and a glass pestle and mortar, 19th century

Mahogany medicine chest, only a few contents inclu

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1900

Almost empty mahogany medicine chest, containing two weights, 19th century.

Almost empty mahogany medicine chest, containing t

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1900

Oak medicine cabinet, 1700-1850, empty

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1700-1850

Medicine chest, mahogany veneer, small, a few labelled glass bottles, c1840

Medicine chest, mahogany veneer, small, a few labe

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820-1850

Medicine chest, winged front, with 11 glass bottles (6 labelled), a labelled confection glass, and 8 labelled pill boxes, an enema syringe and measuring equipment, c1830

Medicine chest, winged front, with 11 glass bottle

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1810-1840

Wooden medicine chest, exterior leather covered, hinged lid, metal drop handles at sides, iron fittings, green felt lining, containing two removable trays holding 38 glass bottles (9 labelled), mortars, pestles, scales, assorted weights, 8 pewter cannisters (2 labelled) , etc., Italian, 1780-1850

Wooden medicine chest, exterior leather covered, h

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1780-1850

Medicine chest, with 22 glass bottles, 11 labelled, envelope, 2 glass measuring cylinders, glass pestle and mortar, 2 confection glasses, late 19th or early 20th century. Some contents dated to Septembr 1916.

Medicine chest, with 22 glass bottles, 11 labelled

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1880-1920

Wing-footed rosewood medicine chest with brass fittings containing fourteern bottles (13 labelled), a balance, various weights and implements, by various suppliers, late 18th c

Wing-footed rosewood medicine chest with brass fit

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1750-1810

Medicine chest, tall cuboid, 13 empty glass bottles and 5 glass tubes and top-handle drawer of miscellanea on top, with glass pestle and mortar, pot of tooth powder, 2 pipettes and a glass pill tile, c1830

Medicine chest, tall cuboid, 13 empty glass bottle

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1850

Medicine chest, fishskin covered, with five empty glass bottles, (3 are cuckoos), c1820

Medicine chest, fishskin covered, with five empty

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1800-1840

Medicine chest, hinged lid, with 18 glass bottles, 13 labelled, 5 spare glass stoppers, c1860

Medicine chest, hinged lid, with 18 glass bottles,

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1850-1880

Polished wooden medicine chest with 13 glass bottles, 4(?) labelled, glass pestle and mortar, 8 glass ointment bowls, 19th century

Polished wooden medicine chest with 13 glass bottl

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820-1880

Medicine chest, with full contents of three empty unlabelled glass bottles, c1840

Medicine chest, with full contents of three empty

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1830-1860

Medicine chest with wing doors, containing 19 glass bottles, 1 labelled, glass pestle and mortar, 4 confection glasses and 5 spare stoppers, one glass, four cork, 19th century

Medicine chest with wing doors, containing 19 glas

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1900

Mahogany medicine chest with 20 glass bottles, 1 labelled, 6 glasses, scales and weights

Mahogany medicine chest with 20 glass bottles, 1 l

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1850-1900

Mahogany medicine chest with 17 glass bottles, unlabelled, empty, balance, and 29 brass weights, 19th century

Mahogany medicine chest with 17 glass bottles, unl

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1900

Iron bound wooden medicine chest in 3 hinged sections, containing 11 glass bottles with pewter screw-on caps, 2 cylindrical pewter canisters, probably Italian, 1701-1830

Iron bound wooden medicine chest in 3 hinged secti

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1701-1830

Italian triptych medicine cabinet, mahogany, yellow fabric interior, empty, Italian, 1600-1750

Italian triptych medicine cabinet, mahogany, yello

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1600-1750

Medicine chest, book-style opening, with 24 glass bottles, 19 labelled, but no suppliers names, 3 glasses, 1 metal nozzle, glass pestle and mortar, bone spatula, 3 drawers labelled for drugs, c1790

Medicine chest, book-style opening, with 24 glass

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1770-1810