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Equipment and Supplies > Medicine Chests

Preferred term

Medicine Chests  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Boxes in which physicians kept their drugs and other medications, medical instruments and supplies, manuals, etc. As a carrying case or convenient storage receptacle, or a kind of portable pharmacy, the medicine chest was indispensable to the itinerant physician. The chest was usually larger and sturdier than a doctor's kit or bag.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Chest, Medicine
  • Chests, Medicine
  • Medicine Chest

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-ZPJJRQB9-2

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