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The Medicine Chest

Laxative Vegetable

Item

Title

Laxative Vegetable

Is Part Of

Special Collections
Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research

Description

"An excellent laxative or purgative, according to the dose taken. One, twice or thrice daily, in habitual constipation, or one to three at bed-time as an occasional purge" (BWC 1925:131).

Access Rights

Currently locked away in Strongroom 3 in the UCT Jagger Library. Prior appointment to the library staff needed in order to view the object. Object should be handled with gloves, and a form signed in order to take any photos of it.

Creator

Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

Date Created

1890

endDate

1940

Source

UCT Special Collections - BC666
Burroughs Wellcome & Co.1925. ‘Tabloid’: brief medical guide for explorers, missionaries, travellers, colonists, planters and others. London: Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

Type

Object

Contributor

Nina Liebenberg

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