Browse Artefacts (75 total)

A small cylindrical medicine vial with a handwritten label that reads ‘Calomel [gtt.?]’, containing a small amount of off-white powder.

Calomel, or mercuric chloride, is a rare naturally occurring mineral introduced as medicine in the year…

A small cylindrical medicine vial with screw top lid; the label appears to read ‘Anti-constipation’ but there is a small tear running through the title, to the middle right of the bottle (standing vertically). The vial is filled with a large…

A small cylindrical medicine vial with screw top lid labelled ‘Chlorodyne’. Inside are a number of dark-brownish pills. Ingredients are listed as: Morphine Mur. 1/6 gr., extract of Cannabis Indica ¼, Nitro Glycerin, 1-300 gr., extract of…

A small cylindrical medicine vial with screw top lid, containing brown-black matter. It has a handwritten label titled ‘Quinine [gtt.?]'.

Described by John William Compton in 1880 as a valuable ‘anti-miasmic, anti-septic, anti-phlogistic,…

A small cylindrical medicine vial filled with light-brown pills, labelled ‘Dover’s Powder Representing 2 ½ grs.’.

Dover’s Powder found popularity as an ‘admirable anodyne diaphoretic’ (Wood, Bache, 1874, p.1368), and was named after…

A small cylindrical medicine vial filled with light-brown pills, labelled ‘Dover’s Powder Representing 2 ½ grs.’.

Dover’s Powder found popularity as an ‘admirable anodyne diaphoretic’ (Wood, Bache, 1874, p.1368), and was named after…

A small cylindrical medicine vial with screw top lid labelled ‘Nitro-Glycerin Comp.’. The vial is filled with a number of greyish pills that, according to the label, consist of Nitro-Glycerin 1-100 gr., Tr. Digitalis 2 min., Tr. Strophanthus 2…

A small cylindrical medicine vial with screw top lid labelled ‘Tonsillitis’. The vial is filled with a number of greyish pills that, according to the label, contain: Tr. Aconite 1-5 gtt., Tr. Belladonna 1-10 gtt., Tr. Bryonia 1-10 gtt., and Red…

Small glass bottle with glass stopper containing a small amount of rust-brown residue, probably from some sort of powder. The same residue, just darker, can also be seen around the neck.

Small glass bottle with chipped glass stopper, lined with the cream coloured residue of some sort of powder or paste.