M0011911: Photograph of twelve glass phials used for medicine

Previous title, replaced May 2022: Glass phials for medicine

Photograph of twelve glass phials used for medicine. According to one of the inventory cards, some of the phials were excavated in London in the sixteenth century. The photograph of the phials is included in the publication Catalogue of an Exhibition illustrating The History of Pharmacy, an exhibition held at the Wellcome Research Institution, London, 4 May - 28 September 1951. They were previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is no longer held by Wellcome Collection.

1951

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items:
A5763
acc. numbers R4648/1936 and R4649/1936
The photograph is listed as figure 11 in the exhibition catalogue. A digitised version is available online

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.