Portable stitched leather medicine chest with strap handle and key

Made:
1871-1910
Portable stitched leather medicine chest with strap handle and

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Portable stitched leather medicine chest with strap handle and
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Portable stitched leather medicine chest with strap handle and key, containing measure, balance and weights, dressings, and 14 labelled bottles and drugs supplied by Army and Navy Co-operative Society and prepared by J.E. Lidwell, chest owned by Sir Bartle Frere, English, 1871-1910

Details

Category:
Emergency Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A241450
Materials:
wood, leather and brass
type:
medicine chests
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

Parts

Glass bottle of Chlorodyne

Glass bottle of Chlorodyne

Rectangular glass bottle with ground glass stopper of Chlorodyne (Tincture of Morphine and Chloroform), half-full. 89 mm x 29 mm x 18 mm, 60 g. Produced by the Army and Navy Co-Operative Society and dispensed by J.E. Lidwell Chemists, London, 1871-1910.

Materials:
paper , chloroform , morphine , glass and half-full
Object Number:
A241450 Pt18
type:
bottle and morphine