Medicine chest

Made:
1801-1850
Medicine chest, mahogany, velvet lining

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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

Parts

Bottle of Paregoric Elixir

Bottle of Paregoric Elixir

Glass bottle with glass stopper for Paregoric Elixir with trace contents remaining. 118 mm x 40 mm x 28 mm, 140g. By Dinneford and Ealing, English, 1830-1850.

Materials:
glass
Object Number:
A104174 Pt2
type:
bottle and opium
bottle; controlled drug; opium

bottle; controlled drug; opium

Small clear glass, rectangle based bottle with glass stopper and paper label. To contain Laudanum, or Tincture of Opium. Believed to have possibly been from a small medicine chest. Contents mostly gone, remaining dry and congealed.

Materials:
glass
Object Number:
A104174 Pt23
type:
bottle and opium
Glass jar of squill pills

Glass jar of squill pills

Small glass jar with foot and tin lid of round black Squill pills, half-full. 49 mm x 32 mm diameter, 43 g. Unknown maker, English, early 19th century.

Materials:
half-full , glass , tin and squill
Object Number:
A104174 Pt28
type:
jar and squill