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Possibly resin, egg shaped object with a three way crack in one side. No label.

Wooden box containing various Elastoplast first aid products.

The box contains:
Elastoplast dressing strip
Elastoplast finger dressing
Elastoplast dressing strip
Elastoplast bandages
Elastoplast emergency wound dressing
Elastoplast…

A cylindrical bottle with a wooden stopper containing Dulcamara, prepared by a homeopathic chemist Joseph James, Promenade Place, Cheltenham, was apprenticed to a homeopathic chemist called Edwin Wheeler and within a few years bought Mr Wheeler’s…

A cylindrical bottle with a wooden stopper containing Drosera, 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…

Dr Gregory’s Stomachic Powder or Compound Rhubarb Powder, prepared by Duncan, Flockhart & Co. A common nineteenth-century antacid, stomachic and cathartic developed by James Gregory (1753-1821). Contains powdered Turkey rhubarb (rheum palmatum),…

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…

Bag of Dr D A MacMillan Shearer, Whitehead Street, Tyne Dock. Black, briefcase like bag. Opens from the top and the side.

This bag contains:
Laennec stethoscope
Klinostik Otoscope Kit
Hellige haemacytometer
Morton's Ophthalmoscope
Surgical…

Black briefcase-like bag. The front of the bag folds forwards to reveal two compartments and four drawers within the bag. Produced by Archd.[Archibald] Young and Son, Forrest Road, Edinburgh.

The bag contains:
Elastikon Bandage
Elastic Adhesive…

This bag contains:
Instrument for testing for diabetes
Wooden box containing surgical instruments
Dr Sotheby's Drainage Trocar
Metal box of surgical instruments
Leather case containing surgical instruments
Object of measurement
Ear…