tall rectangular mahogany medicine chest

Made:: 1831-1870

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tall rectangular mahogany medicine chest, with 13 glass bottles
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tall rectangular mahogany medicine chest, with 13 glass bottles, 12 labelled, balance, several types of weights, packet of bicarbonate of soda, English, mid 19th century

Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A241815

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

type:: medicine chests

credit:: Foster

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Parts

Glass bottle of paregoric elixir

Rectangular glass bottle with ground glass stopper full of Paregoric Elixir (camphorated tincture of opium). 115 mm x 40 mm x 26 mm, 174 g. Dispensed by Davies & Co., London, mid-nineteenth century.