Medicine chest

Made:
1850-1900 in London
Medicine chest, almost full, 28 glass bottles, 18 labelled

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Medicine chest, almost full, 28 glass bottles, 18 labelled
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Medicine chest, almost full, 28 glass bottles, 18 labelled, glass pestle and mortar, balance, 9 weights, thermometer, 2 bandages and 4 boxes give by Dr. James Perie to A.A. Sanderson in 1924, with some new contents, made c1860

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Bottle of P. Creta Aromat c. Opii tablets

Bottle of P. Creta Aromat c. Opii tablets

Glass bottle with glass stopper of 'P. Creta Aromati c. Opii' tablets (Aromatic powder with opium), half-full. 83 mm x 21 mm diameter at base, 42g. Burroughs Wellcome, London, c. 1860.

Materials:
opium , glass and half-full
Object Number:
A630131 Pt19
type:
bottle and opium
Clear glass bottle with cork stopper, containing approximately 1 ounce of Pinheroin

Clear glass bottle with cork stopper, containing approximately 1 ounce of Pinheroin

Clear glass, circle based bottle with cork stopper and paper label. To contain approximately 1 ounce of Pinheroin brand of linctus of terpin and heroin. This product is believed to be a cough suppressant due to the opiate nature of heroin and the and bronchodilatory properties of terpin.

Materials:
bottle, glass and stopper, cork
Object Number:
A630131 Pt20
type:
bottle and diamorphine