Companion to the Medicine Chest
James Tindal
Category
Medical & health
Date
Unknown
Materials
Mahogany, brass, textile, glass, metal and paper
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Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 850183
Summary
A mahogany medicine chest, bound with brass. Inside the top there are 10 divisions containing glass bottles with stoppers, some labelled 'Epsom Salt', 'Spirit of Sal Volatile', 'Spirit of Nitre', 'Spirit of Peppermint' and 'Rhubarb Powder'. A pull-out drawer in the base, lined in red velvet, is divided into six compartments containing a glass pestle and mortar, a measuring glass (broken), a pair of brass and metal balance scales and two cardboard boxes each containing six weights, grain and dram. Beneath the scale is a compartment containing two glass bottles with stoppers: 'Grey Powder' and 'True James's Powder'. The lid and drawer both have brass recessed handles and the plate is engraved with an 'H' or 'J' and a coronet. An insructional booklet entitled 'Companion to the Medicine Chest', by a Medical Practitioner, Thirteenth Edition, revised and enlarged, London: printed for and sold by James Tindal, 23 Charles Street, Middlesex Hospital: 1834.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. Acquired by the National Trust in 1956 under the auspices of the National Land Fund, later the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
Makers and roles
James Tindal, bookseller James Tindal, stationer