Medicine Case
Medicine Case
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- Description
- Small medicine case with an “Clarke’s / Homeopathic / Medicine Case” inscription on the lid. That on the inside states that the contents of the case were “PREPARED AT / CLARKE’S HOMEOPATHIC PHARMACY / No. 28 Market Square, Providence, R.I.” William E. Clarke listed at this address between 1867 and 1880.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- drug kit
- homeopathic preparations
- homeopathic preparations
- date made
- 1867-1880
- Measurements
- overall: 1 in x 4 3/4 in x 3 3/8 in; 2.54 cm x 12.065 cm x 8.5725 cm
- veratrum album: 2 1/8 in x 7/16 in; 5.3975 cm x 1.11125 cm
- arsenicum: 2 in x 7/16 in; 5.08 cm x 1.11125 cm
- sulpher: 1 13/16 in x 3/8 in; 4.60375 cm x.9525 cm
- ID Number
- 1985.0279.01
- accession number
- 1985.0279
- catalog number
- 1985.0279.01
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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