Exploring Medicines
Discover how a variety of medicinal preparations have been made through the centuries and the essential pharmaceutical equipment used.
Mel Atticum Ex Monte Hymetto, c1745-1807
Cardboard box and cup sealed with leather and plastic wrapping, containing honey from Mount Hymettus near Athens. From the Burges Collection. Text on paper box ...
Mel Camb, c1745-1807
Cardboard box and cup sealed with leather and plastic wrapping, containing honey. From the Burges Collection. Text on paper box labels reads ‘Catal. Mat. Med. ...
Mel Minor, c1745-1807
Cardboard box and cup sealed with leather wrapping, containing honey. From the Burges Collection. Text on paper box labels reads ‘Catal. Mat. Med. p.127, no. 79’ ...
Mel Scotic, c1745-1807
Cardboard box and cup sealed with leather and plastic wrapping, containing honey, possibly from Scotland. From the Burges Collection. Text on paper box labels reads ‘...
Meloe Proscarabeus, c1745-1807
Glass jar containing specimens of beetle, Meloe proscarabaeus (or Meloe proscarabeus). From the Burges Collection. Text on labels reads ‘Catal. Mat. Med. p. 127, no. 75’ and ‘...
Millipedae, c1745-1807
Glass jar containing woodlice. From the Burges Collection. Text on paper contents label reads ‘Catal. Mat. Med. p. 128, No. 82’ and ‘Millipedae’. Woodlice had many uses ...
Minimum, c1754
Tin from drawer no. 10 in Corbyn Cabinet containing specimen of red lead oxide. Painted label reads ‘Metal: &c’ and label on drawer partition states contents ...
Model of 1 Lambeth High Street, 1971
Colour photographic print. Photograph of the architect’s model of the proposed six storey design for the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain’s new headquarters ...
Moschus ex Africa, c1745-1807
Glass jar containing excrement from an African gazelle but labelled as musk. From the Burges Collection. Text on paper labels reads ‘Catal. Mat. Med. p. 128, ...
Moschus Muris American, c1745-1807
Glass jar containing a paper-wrapped specimen of musk from an American musk rat. From the Burges Collection. Text on paper labels reads ‘Catal. Mat. Med. ...