Medicine chest, 1800-1840

Made:
1800-1840
Medicine chest, wooden

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Medicine chest, wooden
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Medicine chest, wooden, with twelve labelled bottles mostly from Parry and Garnham, Wellington Street, London, also unusual fluid measure, two chamois bottle covers and weighing equipment, 1800-1840

Details

Category:
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A158670
type:
medicine chest
credit:
Glendining

Parts

bottle; controlled drug; opium

bottle; controlled drug; opium

Square based clear glass bottle with glass stopper and paper label. Bottle to contain approximately 1 ounce of laudanum otherwise known as tincture of opium (tinctura opii simplex).

Materials:
bottle, glass and stopper, glass
Object Number:
A158670 Pt12
type:
medicine chest , bottle and opium