Digital photograph of a collection of Japanese medicines, set on a gray counter. The wrappers on the original cases are printed in Japanese characters. Several boxes, bottles, and canisters of medicine are shown. A ruler has been placed in the foreground for size comparison.
ca. 1939-1944
A collection of Japanese medicines, donated by John B. White, M.D., in January 1945. The collection includes: 1) green cardboard box marked "Tintan," containing small round pills, 2) a package marked "Giflon" (used for intramuscular injection), containing ten 1.2-cc ampules, 3) four amber glass vials, corked and sealed, containing twenty 500-cc tablets which may have been used for pH tests, 4) carboard carton containing ten metal tubes with screw-on caps, which in turn hold maber glass vials filled with iodine, 5) cardboard container labeled "Gas Gangrene Antitoxin," containing one sealed amber glass bottle, 6) clear blue glass bottle, corked and sealed with wax, containing round blue pills of quinine sulphate, 7) clear blue-green bottle, corked and sealed, containing paper packets of ten tablets each, identified as "Pyranidon", 8) metal canister of vaseline, 9) metal canister of barbital, 10) amber glass bottle, corked and sealed, containing argentum proeinicum, and 11) a texturized cardboard container containing one 25-cc ampule of disinfectant.
Medical Museum Collection, Box 59