Homeopathic medicine chest (Europe, 19th century)
photograph · 1850
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SUMMARY
Photograph of an open homeopathic medicine chest, a fitted box holding rows of small corked glass vials filled with medicated granules. The holding institution is the Wellcome Collection (Wellcome Images reference L0057795); the file is accessed via Wikimedia Commons, whose record links back to the Wellcome holding institution and states the licence as Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). The object is dated by the holding institution to the 19th century (1801-1900); the media year of 1850 is a representative midpoint of that documented range, not a precise date. The caption is generic and names no person, because the record does not identify any individual.
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A 19th-century homeopathic medicine chest, the kind of fitted case in which a practitioner or household kept a set of potentized remedies in small labelled vials. It serves as the case’s object image and visual lead. Rights (CC BY 4.0), the Wellcome Images reference (L0057795), and the holding institution (Wellcome Collection) are read from the Wikimedia Commons record, which credits Wellcome; the object’s date is the holding institution’s broad 19th-century range (1801-1900), so the year field carries a representative midpoint rather than a precise year, and the caption asserts no date more specific than ‘19th century’.