Digital photograph of a World War I era-pocket drug kit in a folding leather case. The case is being held open to reveal the five vials inside. Each vial contains pills, and three have paper identification labels. A handwritten card indicating the items provenance can easily be read.
Medical Museum Collection, Box 2A
ca. 1914-1918
World War I-era pocket drug kit in a leather case. The black leather case measures 8.5 x 6 x 1 cm., and has space for eight vials. It holds only five vials, all containing pharmaceutical preparations. Contents of three of the five vials are identified: morphine sulphate, strychnine sulphate, and pure digitalin. The case also holds a handwritten card, which reads: Used in World War I by Laura Catherine McDonald, nurse, shelf #7. The kit was donated in August 1959 by Mrs. Charles Deyette.