M0011910: Photograph of a medicine chest and its contents, circa 1750

Previous title, replaced May 2022: English medicine chest

Photograph of a medicine chest and its contents, which include six glass bottles with silver tops, a silver cup and funnel, and a silver box of apothecaries' weights. The photograph of the medicine chest is included in the publication Catalogue of an Exhibition illustrating The History of Pharmacy, an exhibition held at the Wellcome Research Institution, London, 4 May - 28 September 1951. According to the inventory card, the medicine chest was acquired from George II in the 1930s for the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, but is no longer held by Wellcome Collection.

1951

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome holds the inventory card which provides an entry for the item (A85289)
The photograph is listed as figure 11 in the exhibition catalogue. A digitised version is available online

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.