Homeopathic medicine box

Item Information

Title:
Homeopathic medicine box
Description:
Cardboard box and lid w/ brown paper covering on outside, containing 24 hand blown in mold medicine vials, w/ printed paper labels: Chamomilla, Sulphur, Colocynth, Rhus Tox, Ipecacuanha, Belladonna, Aconite, Nux Vomica, ...conite, Sulphur, Podophyllum, China Coffee, Aconite, Calcarea Carb., Aconite, Rhus Tox, Nitric Acid, Colocynthis, Belladonna, Nux Vamica, Pulsatilla, Bryonia. Vials w/ cork closures.
Date:
1860–1920
Format:
Objects/Artifacts
Genre:
cardboard
cork (bark)
glass (material)
paper (fiber product)
boxes (containers)
packaging
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
Digitized Museum Collections
Subjects:
Cardboard
Unidentified Paper
Glass
Cork
Otis Clapp & Son
A.K. Gilmore & Son
Places:
Massachusetts
Maine
Extent:
2 in. x 4.25 in. x 2.875 in. (H x W x D); 1.625 in. x 4.25 in. x 2.875 in. (H x W x D)
Link to Item:
https://gusn.us/24271
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Notes:
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
Accession #:
1998.5151
Identifier:
24271