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History of Science Museum

Medical Case In Wooden Box, London

Inventory Number 37976


Subject
Medicine
Item type
Object
Dimensions
Height: 435mm Width: 275mm Depth: 124mm
Inventory No
37976

Description

Suitcase shaped box that contains various medical equipment and materials, in an upright position. It is divided into sections. The right half has four drawers of different sizes, the largest at the bottom and the smallest at the top. They contain multiple small boxes, tins, tubes and small glass items. The left half has a top section with a wooden insert with six holders for bottles. There are three sections below this, containing two card boxes and a tin. The key is also present.

Glass bottle with illegible handwritten label; glass bottle with purple residue, handwritten label: "Thomas" [unknown]"; glass bottle, empty, labelled "Ether"; glass bottle with crystalline substance, labelled "14%[?]"; glass bottle half filled with clear liquid , illegible handwritten label possibly saying "Human's Hirst"; blue card box containing 12 vials of "Sterilaqua 5cc" solution for hypodermic injections; sealed blue card box with 12 vials of "Normal" solution for hypodermic injections, unopened; long wooden square tube with "venule containing sodium oxalate"; sealed card box containing "solution of glucose 50%"; brown glass bottle with cork containing "solution adrenalin chloride" tablets; glass behring venule with attached needle, containing white powder; small brown glass bottle with metal screw lid containing "25 tablets ephedrine hydrochloride gr. 1/2 poison"; two sealed cylindrical metal tubes, contents unknown; tin sealed with cloth tape, contents unknown, labelled "Dr Witt's sterile"; cylindrical metal tube encased with paper instructions, unopened; small glass tube of "Hypodermic tablets / no. 9 poison Morphine sulph. / Atropine sulph."; multiple small black strips that may be specimens.