M0020009: Pharmacy jar containing seed pods labelled "Colocynt", from the reconstructed John Bell's pharmacy

Previous title, replaced July 2022: A jar from the 'John Bell' pharmacy.

Photograph of one of the items placed in the reconstructed John Bell's pharmacy previously on display in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1939 (accession number R3270/1939)

January 1965

2 photographs sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm photographic print; 10 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R3270/1939

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.