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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.

Small glass bottle with glass stopper, the top of which is almost completely broken off, coated on the inside by a reddish-orange residue likely from some sort of liquid or tincture.

Small glass bottle with glass stopper filled with a very small amount of whitish powder, and a darker residue round the sides and neck.

Small glass bottle with glass stopper filled with a small amount of brown, gravel-like matter.

Small glass bottle with chipped glass stopper, empty except for a powdery light-orange residue around the neck.

Small glass bottle with glass stopper lined with a light-brown/yellowish powdery residue.