The Memory of Water · The Medicine Chest

Title

The Memory of Water

Is Part Of

Marine and Antarctic Research Centre for Innovation and Sustainability See all items with this value

Oceanography See all items with this value

Ichthyology See all items with this value

Special Collections See all items with this value

Description

"Of the cases used during Stanley's famous travels, the "Rear Guard" 'Tabloid' Medicine Chest is worthy of special mention. The chest remained in the swamp regions of the Aruwhimi for nearly four years, and more than once was actually submerged in the river. Notwithstanding these mishaps, when the chest was brought back to London and the remaining contents tested by the Official Analyst of the Lancet, they were found to have retained their efficacy "(BWC 1934: 5).

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

The Memory of Water 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.