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Hypodermic syringe with glass phials of drugs

Therapeutics

1885-1910

Brown glass bottle of cough mixture

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1925-1960

Leatherette injection kit

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1910

2 litre bottle of Sedative Bismuth Mixture

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1939-1970

Glass bottle of morphine sulphate

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1960-1985

Ribbed green glass poison bottle with glass stopper of Tincture of Morphine and Chloroform

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1979

Glass bottle of ipecac and morphine lozenges

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1891=1920

Ammonium Chloride and morphine mixture

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1976-1982

Selection of microscope slide pieces, in cardboard

Microbiology

1850-1900

Glass vial containing Tabloid brand of morphine sulphate

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

2 litre bottle of Chloroform and Morphine Tincture

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1960-1985

Rectangular cardboard box containing two cylidrical specimens, each labelled 'Anaesthetic compound'. Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, English, c. 1910.

Cardboard box containing two cylinders of anaesthetic compound

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910

Carton, sealed, containing ten ampoules of morphine hydrochloride + decapping file, Germany, 1916-1917

Carton, sealed, containing ten ampoules of morphine hydrochloride + decapping file

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918

Glass bottle with cork stopper and paper label containing morphine and atropine (possibly liquid for injection).

bottle; controlled drug; morphine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Hinged orange cardboard box with white and red printed label. Contains 5 glass labelled ampoules. 2 are empty and broken and 3 have contents. The ampoules are sitting in divisions made with card. German product. Label on box states Graudenz. 10 zugeschmolzene Glasrohren zu 0,02 g Morphinum hydrochloricum in Losung von 1 ccm, kelmfrei gemacht 1915' (See note)

ampoules; controlled drug; morphine

Therapeutics

1910-1915

Hinged yellow cardboard box with white and red printed label. Contains 10 glass labelled ampoules. 3 are empty and broken and 7 have contents. The ampoules are sitting in divisions made with card. German product. Label on box states 'Sanitatsdepot 10 zugeschmolzene Glasrohren zu 0,02 g Morphinum hydrochloricum in Losung von 1 ccm, keimfrei gemacht' (See note)

ampoules; controlled drug; morphine

Therapeutics

1910-1918

Yellow metal container with hinged lid and metal bar-clip. Containing two packs of morphine hydrochloride tablets. Each pack of ten tablets is wrapped in paper. Initially this package would have been supplied with more than the two present rolls of tablets.

container; controlled drug; morphine

Therapeutics

Cardboard box, unopened, with folding lid containing 10 glass ampoules of morphine hydrochloride. Box does not contain a file for de-capping the ampoule. The box is inscribed with the content and manufacturer details and a stamp 'feile im der meaning 'File in Box'. This item was manufactured in Germany during the First World War and is believed to have been issued for military use. Morphine hydrochloride is powerful analgesic and narcotic but it also has central stimulant actions. The 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 anxiety and apprehension.

ampoules; controlled drug; morphine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917

Blue paper parcel, wrapped in twine and sealed with a wax seal and labelled with ‘3’, containing four cartons of ten ampoules, that contain morphine hydrochloride, unsigned, supplied by Woolwich Medical Store, Woolwich, London, England, 1920-1921

Blue parcel, with a wax seal and labelled with ‘3’, containing four cartons of ten morphine hydrochloride ampoules

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Cardboard carton, containing ten glass ampoules of morphine hydrochloride, plus an ampoule de-capping file, supplied by Garnisonlazarett, Cologne, Germany, unsigned, Germany, 1915. Used by the German army during the First World War.

Carton, containing ten glass ampoules of morphine hydrochloride, plus an ampoule de-capping file

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1915

Carton, opened, with folding lid, containing ten glass ampoules of morphine hydrochloride, unsigned, Germany; supplied by San-Dep XV. A. K., Strasbourg, Germany, 1914

Carton, containing ten glass ampoules of morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Glass phial with cork stopper used for Muriate of morphia (morphine), with trace contents remaining. 85 mm x 20 mm diameter. Handwritten label reads, 'Solution of/Muriate of Morphia/Poison'. Probably Scottish, 1831-1850.

Phial for 'Solution of Muriale of Morphia'

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1831-1850

Blue paper parcel, wrapped in twine and sealed with two wax seals, containing four cartons of ten ampoules, that contain morphine hydrochloride, unsigned, supplied by Woolwich Medical Store, Woolwich, London, England, 1920-1921

Blue parcel, with two wax seals, containing four cartons of ten morphine hydrochloride ampoules

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1920-1921

Amber glass bottle with cork stopper of "Valibrom Compound Elixir" (contains chloralformamamide, potassium bromide and morphine). 181 mm x 59 mm x 37 mm, 416 g. Advertised on the label as a 'Harmless Sedative and Hypnotic'. By the British Drug Houses, London, 1940-1970.

Bottle of Elixir Valibrom

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1940-1970

Square glass bottle of Chloroform and Morphine tincture in a leather covering. 120 mm x 40 mm x 35 mm, 176g. Faded inscription reads, 'TR. CHLORO (illegible) MORPH Co.' Burroughs Wellcome, London, 1900-1919.

Bottle of Chloroform and morphine tincture

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1919

Leatherette and velvet lined case for a hypodermic syringe (missing) with three medicament bottles (Ergotine, Apomorphine and Morphine). Overall: 69 mm x 98 mm x 22 mm, 64 g. By Charles Green and Co., London, 1885-1910.

Hypodermic syringe case with medicament bottles

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1885-1910

Glass bottle with glass stopper approximately one-quarter full of 'Chlorodyne' (morphine and chloroform). 130 mm x 63 mm x 40 mm, 233g. A handwritten note on the bottle indicates that the formula for this chlorodyne is Dr. Collis Browne's. Unkown maker, unknown origin, late nineteenth century.

Bottle of Chlorodyne

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1831-1900

Amber glass bottle with cork stopper one-third full of 'Anodyne Pine Expectorant'. 203 mm x 72 mm diameter, 418 g. Made by Parke, Davis and Co., London, early twentieth century.

Bottle of Anodyne Pine Expectorant

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1950

One ampoule 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]'. 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.

Ampoule containing morphine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917-1918