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The Medicine Chest

Tannin

Item

Title

Tannin

Is Part Of

Special Collections
Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research

Description

"Styptic. To stop bleeding, one or more may be pulverised, and the powder applied direct to the wound. Internally, for haemorrhage, and for dysentery, etc. One or two may be powdered and taken in a glass of water; or they may be slowly sucked of the effect be desired in the mouth or throat" (BWC 1925:140).

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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