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A circa
1930s
machined aluminium case containing bottles with pharmacologically active ingredients
for hypodermic injection. These would have been
administered by a WW2 physician in the field, when
strychnine was still being used as a stimulant. They
include tabloids of morphine sulphate, morphine tartrate,
apomorphine, strychnine sulphate, cocaine hydrochloride, hyoscine,
atropine and
ergotamine. The labels are marked DDA Poison with the formulation
and dose and read 'Burrows Wellcome & Co. The
Wellcome foundation'. |