A fine early 20th-Century mahogany domestic medicine chest, the double doors each with fitted green plush lined compartments for nine bottles with an assortment of medicinal powders and liquids, opening to reveal a top shelf with five larger bottles of varying designs, four smaller pill drawers with two sliding compartments in each, containing such items as a needle box and a torniquet strap by Savigny, three larger drawers beneath containing assorted medical accessories including a pestle and mortar, a cautery, small glass jars, bandages and a variety of pills, the rear of the chest with slide revealing the 'poison compartment' with five matching jars containing such substances as Flowers of Sulphur , and five larger assorted jars, the chest complete with a lacquered-brass drop handle ( worn ) and a set of keys -- 223/8in. (56.8cm) high See Colour Illustration
A fine early 20th-Century mahogany domestic medicine chest, the double doors each with fitted green plush lined compartments for nine bottles with an assortment of medicinal powders and liquids, opening to reveal a top shelf with five larger bottles of varying designs, four smaller pill drawers with two sliding compartments in each, containing such items as a needle box and a torniquet strap by Savigny, three larger drawers beneath containing assorted medical accessories including a pestle and mortar, a cautery, small glass jars, bandages and a variety of pills, the rear of the chest with slide revealing the 'poison compartment' with five matching jars containing such substances as Flowers of Sulphur , and five larger assorted jars, the chest complete with a lacquered-brass drop handle ( worn ) and a set of keys -- 223/8in. (56.8cm) high See Colour Illustration
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