Drug Case
Drug Case
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- Description
- Leather covered case containing 12 glass ampoules with handwritten paper labels. The inscription in the lid reads “JOHN. BROWNING / 111. MINORIES / AND 63. STRAND / LONDON.” The eclectic physician, Dr. John King, presented this case to the donor.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Drug Kit
- medicine case
- medicine case, ampules
- date made
- ca 1870s
- user
- John King, M.D.
- maker
- Browning, John
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Physical Description
- glass (ampules(12) material)
- leather (case material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 in x 6 5/8 in x 3 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 16.8275 cm x 9.525 cm
- overall: 3 cm x 16.5 cm x 10 cm; 1 3/16 in x 6 1/2 in x 3 15/16 in
- ID Number
- MG.M-02043.02
- catalog number
- M-02043.02
- accession number
- 83996
- Credit Line
- Accession 83996 (1924); Gift of Dr. H. W. Felter (through John Uri Lloyd)
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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