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The Medicine Chest

Iron and Arsenic Compound

Item

Title

Iron and Arsenic Compound

Is Part Of

Special Collections
Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research

Description

"Tonic. Use with caution. One to two may be taken with a draught of water, three times daily, as a tonic during convalescence from malarial fevers, or as an alternative in skin affections" (BWC 1925:129)

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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