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Digital photograph of a printed sheet of drug information, pasted to the lid of a homeopathic drug kit. The sheet indicates that this kit was sold by Boericke & Tafel as their "Dollar and a Half Case." The first five listed substances can be seen in the image. The kit contained eighteen substances in all.
Homeopathic drug kit, measuring 17.4 x 9.5 x 2.5 cm. The brown cloth-covered case has room for eighteen glass vials in a purple velvet lined tray. One of the vials is missing from this case. The kit was sold by Boericke & Tafel as the "Dollar and a Half Case," and a printed list of included substances is pasted into the case lid. The item was donated by Helen Cary, M.D., in February 1950. It formerly belonged to Mr. Careys father, who was not an M.D. The kit was removed in June 2003 for hazardous waste disposal.
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ca. 1875
Homeopathic drug kit, measuring 17.4 x 9.5 x 2.5 cm. The brown cloth-covered case has room for eighteen glass vials in a purple velvet lined tray. One of the vials is missing from this case. The kit was sold by Boericke & Tafel as the "Dollar and a Half Case," and a printed list of included substances is pasted into the case lid. The item was donated by Helen Cary, M.D., in February 1950. It formerly belonged to Mr. Careys father, who was not an M.D. The kit was removed in June 2003 for hazardous waste disposal.
IsVersionOf 77-30_1_18a.jpg
ca. 1875
