Domestic medicine chest

The chest and its contents are made of cedar, glass, leather and fabric. The cedar chest is upright with double front opening doors and a drawer below. Each door has three shelves holding stoppered square glass bottles containing various substances such as ether, rhubarb, camphor and laudanum. The body of the chest has one shelf at the top and three small drawers and two larger drawers underneath. Similar bottles holding various remedies and other pharmaceutical equipment, such as weighing scales, troy weights and mortar and pestle are contained within. The drawer below the front-opening doors contains jars with metal screw caps, a ceramic ointment jar, two instruction manuals, glass bottles and a few other small items. At the back of the cabinet there is a secret compartment with a sliding door concealing other medicines contained in large glass bottles.