| Description | Cylindrical ivory travelling pill box, belonging to physician Charles Philip Croker, presented by Dr Geoge Peacocke, 10 June 1915. The cylinder is split into 5 unequal parts that can be unscrewed. Excluding the cap, pills can be stored in the remainding four compartments, with each one inscribed with the medication intended to be stored there. They read, from top to bottom: Pil. Submer; Pil Aper (probably referring to laxatives); Pil Hydra (possibly referring to blue mass, a mercury-based medicine); Pil Ant J (possibly antimony) . |