Exploring Medicines
Discover how a variety of medicinal preparations have been made through the centuries and the essential pharmaceutical equipment used.
Viperae Exenterateae, c1745-1807
Glass specie jar, with wooden lid and paper labels, containing specimens of disembowelled viper/adder. Vipers had a whole range of uses including the cure ...
Zea Spelta, c1745-1807
Glass specie jar with glass lid and paper label, containing specimen of seed of hardy wheat (Triticum spelta). From The Burges Collection. Label on body ...