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Ship's Medicine Chest from Manhattan

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Shipboard medicine chest

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Medicine Chest

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Shipboard medicine chest

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19th c Ship's Doctor Medicine Chest

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"19th c Ship's Medicine chest with drawer, James Folsom, Boston label, mostly intact contents, crude drugs, books and pamphlets, fleam, urethral syringe, etc, 17 1/2" x 14" x 11"

Booklets from left to right:

• Hand-book for the ship's medicine chest. (GPO 1881)


• Family physician: teaching how to prevent and cure disease, and prolong life and health to one hundred years. (S.S. Fitch, 1876)


• The mariner's medical guide: designed for the use of ships, families, and plantations, containing the symptoms and treatment of diseases, also, a list of medicines, their uses, and the mode of administering, when a physician cannot be procured. (James Folsom, 1884)

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