On the External Characters of Minerals · The Medicine Chest

Title

On the External Characters of Minerals

Is Part Of

Geological Sciences See all items with this value

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Description

"The chest is designed to meet the requirements of travellers, miners, missionaries and others who need a chest of sufficient capacity to take a good supply of medicines without undue bulk and weight. It is very portable, and, on account of the material of which it is made, capable of standing hard usage" (BWC 1934: 24).

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

On the External Characters of Minerals See all items with this value

url

https://atom.lib.uct.ac.za/floyd-family-papers

Creator

Nina Liebenberg See all items with this value

Date Created

2021

Source

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