Medicine chest

Made:
1770-1840
Medicine chest, wood, with hinged lid and front

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Medicine chest, wood, with hinged lid and front
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Medicine chest, wood, with hinged lid and front, containing a total of 10 bottles (9 labelled), 1 paper packet, 1 pamphlet, 1 drawer of 4 materia medica specimens, glass pestle and metal funnel, by Swinfen, Leicester, 1770-1840

Details

Category:
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A157318
Materials:
chest, wood
type:
medicine chests
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

Parts

bottle; controlled drug; opium

bottle; controlled drug; opium

Clear glass, square based bottle with stopper and paper label. Believed to have been part of a medicine chest. To contain laudanum, or tincture of opium (tinctura opii). Shoulder broken, contents spilt. Shoulder and stopper inside bottle. Contents leaving powder behind.

Materials:
glass
Object Number:
A157318 Pt15
type:
bottle and opium