Exploring Medicines
Discover how a variety of medicinal preparations have been made through the centuries and the essential pharmaceutical equipment used.
Kyphi Necklace, 1st Century AD
Display box containing a portion of a necklace of Kypi Balls found round the neck of a 1st Century B.C. Egyptian Mummy in the ...
Lacca Alb. Cum Inscecto Laccifero, c1745-1807
Glass jar, with glass lid and paper labels, containing specimens of lac, a gummy secretion from the insect Tachardia lacca (Kerria lacca). From the Burges ...
Laminaria Tent, 1940-1970
Carboard box containing twelve Laminaria tents in glass tubes containing sterilized solution. Laminaria tents were a form of uterine tent, used to dilate the cervix ...
Lap Bufonites, c1745-1807
Glass jar containing Lapides Bufonites, or Toad Stones. From the Burges Collection. Text on paper contents labels reads ‘Catal. Mat. Med. p. 139, no. 34.’ and ‘LAP. ...
Lap Judaicus, c1745-1807
Glass jar, with glass lid and paper labels, containing specimens of Lapis Judaicus, or Jew’s Stone. From the Burges Collection. Text on paper contents ...
Lap. Cancror. Spur, c1745-1807
Glass jar, with glass lid and paper labels, containing specimens of false ‘crab’s eyes’, lapides cancrorum. From the Burges Collection. Text on paper labels ...
Lap. Manati Spur, c1745-1807
Glass jar, with plastic screw top lid and paper labels, containing what is spuriously labelled as a bone from the head of a manatee. From ...
Lapides Carpionum, c1745-1807
Glass jar containing specimens of Lapides Carpionum from the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. From the Burges Collection. Text on paper labels reads ‘Catal. Mat. Med. ...
Lapis Aetites, c1745-1807
Glass jar containing Lapis Aetites, the Eagle Stone. From the Burges Collection. Text on paper contents labels reads ‘Catal. Mat. Med. p. 138 no. 29.’ and ‘LAP. ...
Lapis De Goa
Invented by Jesuit priests in Goa, these stones were artificial versions of bezoars – lumps of matter found in the stomachs of various animals and prized ...