Mahogany domestic medicine chest dating from 1860, England. Home medicine chests were common in this era where most of the family's ailments, such as

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Mahogany domestic medicine chest dating from 1860, England. Home medicine chests were common in this era where most of the family's ailments, such as fever or constipation, would have been treated within the home with the guidance of a medicine 'recipe book'. The chest contains ten medicine bottles, pestle and mortar, scales and a glass measure.

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