Military Medicine Chest 1588

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Military Medicine Chest 1588. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Fabricius, a noted Swiss physician of the XVI century, recommended that the military chest should be furnished with no less than 362 varieties of midicine, some of which contained as many as 64 ingredients. The complexity of arrangement, the huge bulk and great weight, the liability to breakage, and the complicated inconvenience of medicine chests persisted until the introduction of "Tabloid" Medical Equipments.

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