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Unidentified solid, hammer-like head with leather and string wrapped handle. No label.

A cylindrical bottle with a wooden stopper containing Hepar Sulphris, prepared by a homeopathic chemist Joseph James, Promenade Place, Cheltenham, who had worked for Arthur Guinness M.D. and undertook the company and changed the name to Joseph James…

Curved metal blade. Has '939' written on the blade. No label.

This bottle is empty.

As well as its use in food recipes, ginger was used extensively in medicines for millennia and became well-known in England as early as the 11th century. The famous herbalist, Nicholas Culpeper advised to use the root for…

A cylindrical bottle with a wooden stopper containing Gelsemium, prepared by a homeopathic chemist Joseph James, Promenade Place, Cheltenham, who had worked for Arthur Guinness M.D. and undertook the company and changed the name to Joseph James M.P.S…

Oblong metal blade with square end, carved wooden handle with splits in the wood. No label.

Semi circular metal file, flat on one side curved on the other. No handle. No label

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English Paregoric Elixir, prepared by Duncan, Flockhart & Company. “Paregoric” is a camphorated tincture of opium, sometimes containing additional ingredients such as benzoic acid, aniseed oil, honey and alcohol. Paregoric medicines such as this…