Southwark | Science Museum Group Collection

Ribbed circular brown glass bottle, with a paper label, containing tincture of cannabis indica, of which some remains. The bottle is labelled 'Tinct. Cannab. Ind. B.P.', and embossed 'POISON'. Manufactured by Wright, Layman and Umney Ltd of London. Pure cannabis preparations became illegal in the United Kingdom in 1925 when under an amendment to the Dangerous Drugs Act it was classified as a class B drug. As a result all cannabis preparations were removed from the British Pharmacopeia 1930.

Ribbed brown glass bottle, containing tincture of cannabis indica

1900-1950

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A solar powered car

Bottle of chloral hydrate tablets

Embalming syringe set, London, England, 1790-1820

Drug jar for Salicylic Acid Ointment

Scarpa's boot

Herb cutter

Mechanical vibrator (Veedee)

Stomach pump set

Enema set and stomach pump by Laundy

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunny Snaps competition judging

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunny Snaps competition judging

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunny Snaps competition judging

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunny Snaps competition judging

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunny Snaps competition judging

Bye-laws and regulations made by the South Eastern Railway with the approval of the Board of Trade for traffic and use of Folkestone harbour

Trade card: John Snart

Patent model showing screw propeller with James Lowe's blade principle

Forceps, craniotomy, Conquest

Boxwood contour gauge

Mechanical Veedee vibrator

Veedee vibrator by F. Garratt

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunny Snaps competition judging

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunny Snaps competition judging

rules and regulations to be observed in locomotive and carriage and wagon departments

Regulations made by the South Eastern Railway company with the approval of the Board of Trade for regulating traffic and use of Folkestone Harbour

Equal-arm balance chondrometer

Model of a ship's stern fitted with a screw propeller patented by James Lowe

'Grasshopper' Engine, c. 1855

Bottle of methyl salicylate liniment

Oesophageal tube in gum elastic

Ivory rectal nozzle

Piston-acting syringe with T-shaped handle and spring loaded stopcock

Tube, rubber-covered spring

Bottle of Compound Syrup of Cocillana

Ribbed brown glass bottle, containing tincture of cannabis indica

Glass bottle of papaverine hydrochloride powder

Poison bottle of Dover's Powder tablets

500ml bottle of syrup of red poppies B.P.C.

Bottle for caraway water

Bottle of valerian and chloral hydrate elixir

Bottle of paraldehyde

Bottle of quinine sulphate tablets

Brown glass bottle

Bottle of lactose

Bottle of colophony

Bottle of benzoin inhalation

Bottle of urea

Bottle of calomel tablets

Glass bottle

Bottle of turpentine liniment