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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 the opiate painkiller 'Papine'

Medical Glass-ware

1890-1920

Pewter theriac container

Pharmacy-ware

1603

Green poison bottle with lid labelled 'Opium Pulverat BP

Public Health & Hygiene

1964

Bottle for Dover Powder

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1937-1938

Brown glass bottle of aspirin and opium tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1950-1970

Bottle of 'Papine'

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1920-1950

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

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

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

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

Glass bottle, containing aspirin, Dover's Powder (with opium) and phenacetin compound tablets. 103 mm x 53 mm diameter, 190 g. Printed label reads, 'TABLETS/ASPIRIN B.P. gr 6/DOVER'S POWDER B.P. gr 2/ PHENACETIN B.P. gr 2 1/2/POISON/MANUFACTURED IN ENGLAND BY/ ALLEN & HANBURYS LTD. LONDON E2'. Manufactured by Allen and Hanburys Ltd., London, 1920-1950.

Glass bottle of aspirin and Dover's powder tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1920-1950

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 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 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

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

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

Carton of six 1 c.c. ampoules of 'Omnopon' (opium alkaloids) with four glass ampoules remaining and instructional leaflet. Carton: 86 mm x 60 mm, 31 g total. Roche Products Limited, English, 1910-1940.

Six ampoule carton of 'Omnopon'

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1910-1940

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

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

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

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

Glass bottle of "Choleflavin" brand (papaverine hydrochloride) pearl pellets in original carton. Carton: 73 mm x 44mm x 28 mm. Yellow carton with maroon borders and blue central text pabel reads, ' 60 pellets/ CHOLEFLAVIN/ Trademark Brand/ Trypaverin/ Bayer Products Ltd./...' The carton contains an oval shaped clear glass bottle with a shiny metalic top which is embossed with the Bayer logo. On the front of the bottle is adhered a printed label, again in yellow and blue, which repeats the information on the front of the carton. The 'pellets' contained within the bottle are spherical and silver in colour. Supplied by Bayer Products Ltd., German, 1930-1940.

Bottle of 'Choleflavin' pellets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1930-1940

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 glass bottle for Laudanum (opium tincture) with cork stopper, trace contents remaining. 103 mm x 49 mm x 43 mm, 321 g. Dalmahoy, English, 1780-1820.

Glass bottle for laudanum

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1780-1820

Clear glass, test tube shaped bottle with cork and wood stopper containing powdered opium (pulveratum opii). Prepared by W R Baker of Sidcup.

bottle; controlled drug; opium

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Pewter canister with screw top containing 'Teriaca' or Theriac, an ancient medical preparation which contains poppy syrup. 52 mm x 25 mm diameter, 38 g. Unknown maker, Italian, 1771-1850.

Canister of Teriaca

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1771-1850

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 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

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

Small glass bottle with glass stopper full of round 'Warburg' tablets (contain opium and quinine). 90 mm x 30 mm x 20 mm, 59g. Ferris & Co. Ltd , English, 1893-1900.

Bottle of Warburg tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1893-1900

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 stoppered rectangular bottle containing brown residue of opium tincture. 91 mm x 33 mm x 23 mm. The printed label on the lid of the medicine kit designated the bottle as 'OPIUM-TINKTUR, 20g.' Produced by C. Stiefenhofer, German, circa World War I.

Glass bottle of opium tincture

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1914-1918

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

Square glass bottle with ground glass stopper of Compound Tincture of Camphor (Paregorix Elixir) with traces remaining. 86 mm x 38 mm x 38 mm, 107 g. Dispensed by Wallas & Co., London, c. 1840.

Bottle of Compound Tincture of Camphor

Therapeutics

1810-1850

Glass bottle with metal screw top full of Compound Syrup of Cocillana (contains cocillana, opium, antrimony and morphine). 164 mm x 53 mm x 30 mm, 308 g. Prepared by Wright, Leyman and Umney Ltd., London, 1940-1960.

Bottle of Compound Syrup of Cocillana

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1940-1960

Rectangular glass bottle with glass stopper for Laudanum(opium tincture) with traces remaining. 115 mm x 38 mm x 28 mm, 91 g. Handwritten label reads, 'Laudunum/Dose 5 to 10 minims'. W. and T. Avery Ltd, England, 1870-1910.

Glass bottle of laudanum

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1870-1910

Glass bottle with glass stopper covered in chamois for Laudanum (opium tincture) with traces remaining. 116 mm x 40 mm, 147 g. Sprackett Chemists, Bristol, 1862-1900.

Bottle of Laudanum

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1862-1900

Glass bottle with cork stopper of 5 grain Dover Powder tablets (ipecacuanha and opium). 53 mm x 30 mm x 30 mm, 47g. Made by Standard Tablet and Pill Co., Hove, Sussex, 1914-1918.

Bottle of 5-grain Dover Powder tablets

Therapeutics

1914-1918

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

Brown cardboard box, c94 mm x 70mm x 69mm, 34g. Contains a large dried poppy head. White paper label is adhered to the inside of the box which reads,'31/DRIED POPPY HEAD/(Papaver setigerum)/THOUGHT TO BE THE " GALL" OF SCRIPTURE' Palestine, 1870-1930.

Dried poppy head

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1870-1930

Square glass bottle with glass stopper full of 'Warburg's Tincture' tablets (opium and quinine). 95 mm x 44 mm x 50 mm, 208g. Ferris & Co. Ltd , English, 1893-1900.

Bottle of Warburg Tincture tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1893-1900

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

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

Small clear glass bottle, with cork stopper and paper label, containing Brathwaite's Genuine Black Drop. Black Drop was a proprietary remedy of fermented vinegar of opium introduced around 1700. It contained more opium than most varieties of The label on this example reads 'Genuine Black Drop, Prepared By J.A. Brathwaite, Lancaster' and 'N.B. One Drop equal to four of Laudanum'.

Small clear glass bottle, with cork stopper and paper label, containing Brathwaite's Genuine Black Drop

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

c. 1801

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

Dark glass bottle with cork stopper full of 1 gr. compressed Opium tablets. 55 mm x 30 mm x 18 mm, 37g. Manufactured by Parke, Davis, London, English, 1920-1940.

Bottle of compressed opium tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1920-1940

Glass bottle with glass stopper for Laudanum (opium tincture) with trace remaining. 104 mm x 30 mm, 99 g. Printed chemists label reads, 'CAUTION- This bottle to be kept seperate from all others/ LAUDANUM/ (poison)/ Prepared by/ G. Oldham and Co./...Dublin...'. G. Oldham and Co, Ireland, 1830-1860.

Bottle of Laudanum

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1830-1860