Exploring Medicines
Discover how a variety of medicinal preparations have been made through the centuries and the essential pharmaceutical equipment used.
Umbilicus Marinus Spurius, c1745-1807
Glass specie jar containing specimens of spurious shells of Umbilicus Marinus. From the Burges Collection. Text on paper contents label reads ‘Catal. mat. med. p. 118. ...
Umbilicus Marinus Verus, c1745-1807
Glass specie jar containing specimens of ‘true’ Umbilicus Marinus. From the Burges Collection. Text on paper contents label reads ‘Catal. mat. med. p. 118. No. 86. Umbilicus ...
Unicorn
Without the knowledge and global information network we have today, medieval and later apothecaries often found it difficult to reconcile the fact and fiction of ...
Unidentified animal horn acting as a receptacle for civet, c1745-1807
Unidentified animal horn acting as a receptacle for civet, a secretion from the glands of the civet cat. From the Burges Collection In additions made ...
Usnea Cranii Humani, c1745-1807
Glass specie jar containing a paper-wrapped specimen of the lichen Usnea florida from a human skull. Tied in a silk bag and applied to the ...
Vapo-Cresolene Vaporizer Oil Lamp, 1923-1940
Vapo-Cresolene Vaporizer oil lamp and cardboard packaging. The lamp consists of a small metal kerosene lamp, wick, clear glass container for the oil, and a ...
Vermilion, c1754
Tin from drawer no. 10 in Corbyn Cabinet which contains specimen of mercuric sulphide (vermilion). The painted label read ‘Metal: &c’. The label on drawer partition ...
Verrucae Pedum Equinorum, c1745-1807
Glass specie jar containing specimens of ‘lichen’, a callous excrescence found on horses’ legs. From the Burges Collection Text on paper contents label reads ‘Catal. ...
Viper (Burges Collection of Materia Medica, late 1700s)
Vipers appear to have been one of the wonder drugs of the apothecary’s cabinet. Commonly used as a poison antidote or plague remedy, vipers ...
Viper (Burges Collection of Materia Medica)
Vipers appear to have been one of the wonder drugs of the apothecary’s cabinet. Commonly used as a poison antidote or plague remedy, vipers ...