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Bottle for Sydenham Laudanum

Bottle for Sydenham Laudanum

1801-1900

Small rectangular pocket dispensary with hinged metal segments, 7 of which contain pills (including opium, Dover's powder, quinine, and lead with opium), 2 contain packets of powder (calomel and antimony), with an informational leaflet. 84 mm x 57 mm x 13 mm. Made by Flockhart and Company, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1837-1870.

Small pocket dispensary containing drugs

1837-1870

Green leather hinged miniature dispensary, containing 18 glass jars, measuring cylinder and 7 pill boxes, personal relic of Drs. Bailey, designed by Dr.E.A. Kirby, English, 1850-1900

Green leather hinged miniature dispensary

1850-1900

Homoeopathic medicine pocket dispensary, folding leather case containing 60 glass phials all labelled, made by Dr.W. Schwabe of Leipzig, German, 1870-1930

Homoeopathic medicine pocket dispensary

1870-1930

Specimen phial containing homeopathic cannabis pills. Phial: 55mm. Homeopathic medicine is based on the 'law of similars' that 'like is cured by like'. Dispensed by Dr. William Schwabe, German, 1870-1930.

Phial of homeopathic cannabis

1870-1930

Glass phial with cork stopper full of chocolate-coated 'Neuralgic' tablets (zinc phosphate, strychnine, cannabis extract). 58 mm x 11 mm diameter, 5 g. Parke, Davis, and Co., London, 1880-1930.

Phial of 'Neuralgic' tablets

1880-1930

Metal pocket dispensary containing seven glass tubes of medicines (parts 17-23) by Burroughs Wellcome, English

Metal pocket dispensary containing seven glass tubes of medicines