Medicine chest

Made:
1820-1870

Medicine chest, mahogany, scruffy with 11 glass bottles, 5 labelled, other contents include 2 leech tubes, c1850

Details

Category:
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A630173
Materials:
chest, mahogany, lining, velvet, red and handle, brass
type:
medicine chests
credit:
Phillips, Son and Neale

Parts

Jar of Chlorodyne lozenges

Jar of Chlorodyne lozenges

Glass jar with ground glass stopper of Chlorodyne Lozenges, each lozenge with moulded 'chlorodyne' label. 120 mm x 55 mm x 40 mm, 267g. Produced by the Civil Service Co-operative Society and dispensed by M.H. Arundel, London, c. 1850.

Measurements:
overall: 120 mm x 55 mm x 40 mm, 267g
Materials:
glass , chloroform , opium , cannabis and half-full
Object Number:
A630173 Pt3
type:
bottle and opium