Victorian Medicine

Rosewood Medicine Chest

medicine; Victorian; England; Medicine Chest

This Rosewood Medicine Chest included a Tall rectangular rosewood medicine chest with 13 labelled glass bottles, a balance, and 2 types of weights, which could have been used domestically or by a medical practitioner. One of the bottles in the chest was calomel, a purgative.

unknown

1831-1870

England

Physical object, medicine chest

Science Museum Group accessed through JSTOR

Unknown

Creative Commons, 4.0

brass; chest, rosewood; handle, brass; lining, velvet
overall: 225 mm x 248 mm x 95 mm,

Nixie Young