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This bottle probably contained a substance called ‘Gregory’s Powder’ as evidenced by the pinkish hue of the surviving powder. The powder was named after its inventor Dr James Gregory, a physician in Edinburgh and was used as a laxative. It…

This bottle is empty and unlabelled.

This bottle is mostly empty but there are remnants of a dark red powder.

This bottle is empty.

A small glass bottle with cork stopper labelled ‘Veratrum Album’, filled with a number of white, spherical pills.

A perennial plant native to Europe, growing in ‘wet meadows and swampy places’, veratrum album sports a bitter and acrid…