Medicine chest

Made:: 1801-1850

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Medicine chest, mahogany, velvet lining
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Medicine chest, mahogany, velvet lining, complete with 22 glass bottles, 21 labelled, glass pill tile, 2 metal boxes of ointment, 3 labelled glass jars of pills, glass measuring cylinder, glass pestle and mortar, 2 dressings, a bandage and scales and 11 weights, English, early 19th century

Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A104174

Materials:: chest, mahogany, lining, velvet and fittings, brass

type:: medicine chests

credit:: Knight, Frank and Rutley

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