Soda-Mint (Neutralising)
Item
Title
Soda-Mint (Neutralising)
Is Part Of
Special Collections
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Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research
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Human Biology
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Pathology
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Description
"Antacid, exhilarant and stimulant. From one to three as a neutralising agent, in irritable and acid conditions of the stomach, dyspepsia, flatulence, etc. They may be swallowed with water, or be powdered and dissolved in water and taken as a draught" (BWC 1925:138).
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.
Curriculum
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
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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.
Resonances
Walter Floyd
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Chest: a botanical ecology
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medicine
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disease
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illness
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digestion
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dissolve
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flatulence
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Alice in Wonderland
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Oompa Loompa
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stomach
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neutralise
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irritation
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exhilarant
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dyspepsia
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Rennies
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medicine chest
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imperialism
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colonialism
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exploration
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expedition
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Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
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Type
Object
Contributor
Nina Liebenberg