Medicine chest

Made:: 1840-1880 in London

maker:: Henry Gilbertson

Medicine chest, medium size, with 15 glass bottles, 4 labelled, glass liquid measure, 5 labelled confection glasses, a knife, a lancet, a lump of unknown drug, and a glass syringe, English, c1860

Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A23892

Materials:: leatherette, covered, hinges, brass, lining, velvet, brown and handle, cloth

type:: medicine chests

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Parts

bottle; controlled drug; opium

Clear glass, square-based bottle, no label, with glass stopper, broken at shoulder. To contain tincture of opium (Laudanum). Only trace contents remain.

Materials:: bottle, glass and stopper, glass

Object Number:: A23892 Pt7

type:: medicine chest , bottle and opium

phial; controlled drug; opium

Clear glass vial with glass stopper and paper label. vial contains approximately 1 ounce of laudanum otherwise known as tincture of opium (tinctura opii simplex).