Calomel
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Title
Calomel
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Special Collections
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Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research
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Description
"Alternative purgative. Use with caution. One to five of the smaller dose may be taken withh a draught of water as a cathartic and liver stimulant, or one, twice daily, as an alternative. The 5-grain dose is given in cases of jaundice accompanied by fever" (BWC 1925:122).
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.
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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.
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Calomel
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purgative
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caution
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cathartic
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stimulant
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jaundice
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Type
Object
Contributor
Nina Liebenberg