cmog:Object of the Week: Apothecary’s Coffer, possibly France or Switzerland, 1700-1725. 2009.3.77.

cmog:Object of the Week: Apothecary’s Coffer, possibly France or Switzerland, 1700-1725. 2009.3.77. This unusual wooden box has compartments containing 10 glass bottles with metal screw tops, two metal jars with tops, and a pewter syringe. It would have been used by a traveling pharmacist or by a doctor on house calls. The glass bottles in such a set contained liquid solutions for application or ingestion, while the pewter bottles held creams or pastilles. The bottles remind us of the importance of glass in hygiene and medicine. Glass containers were not subject to corrosion or to the contamination of their contents. They could thus remain sterile, and they could be tightly sealed. -- source link
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