Medicine chest

Date
Circa 1890
Description
Varnished wooden medicine chest; lift-up lid and pull-out drawer secured by descending pin adjustment to lock. Lid lined with felt and has pull-down compartment for papers. Contains a number of glass jars with glass stoppers, ointment, mortar, pestle, pottery jars and glass jars with wooden lids. The original owner of this chest was Dr James Naphthine (1866 - c.1908), a general practitioner in Port Fairy and Stawell, Victoria. Dr James Naphthine was born in Terang, educated at Warrambool Grammar, and later attended University of Melbourne, then Edinburgh. Practised in Port Fairy 1891, then purchased practice of Dr Jack of Stawell. Was Mayor of Stawell, 1902
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Object detail

Date

Circa 1890

Medium

stained and varnished wood, metal, glass, paper and ink, felt, chamois, pottery and contents (ointments and other compounds)

Measurements

25.2 x 46 x 28 cm

Accession Number

MHM04341

Credit line

Gift of Dr S Peters, 1977

Inscriptions

name/inscriptions ▫ printed labels: 'Sp of Hartshorn', 'Caster Oil', 'Elexir Panegoric', 'Antimonial Wine', 'Wine Rect.', 'Sp.Nite Sweet', 'Cryst.Lemon Juice', 'Carbonate of Potash', 'Tincture of Bark', 'Sp.Sal.Volatile', 'Aromatic Confection' 'Camphor', 'Sp.Lavender', 'No.26 Blistering Fluid', 'Vitriol White', 'Ginger Powder', 'Ipecacuanha Wine', 'Rhubarb Powder', 'Jalap Powder', 'Chloroform', 'Sulphate of Quinine', 'Calomel', 'Tartar Emeric', 'Dovers Powder', 'Borax', 'Antimonial Powder', 'Gum Arabic', 'Peppermint Essence', 'Brown Cerate Ointment', 'Bottle - Strong Acid', 'Gallic Acid', 'Blue Pills', 'Grey Powder', 'Blue Stone', 'Red Precipitate', 32 illegible

Object Type

containers
pharmacology/medication

Medical History Museum Category

Medical and Surgical Equipment and Instruments

Museum

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