Luyties Combination Tablets Homeopathic Medicine Kit
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular brown leather case with top flap secured to front of case with snap. Case opens out into two halves each with leather loops to hold twelve pharmaceutical vials. Leather side flaps fold in over vials. Vials are glass with cork stopper. Fourteen of the twenty-three remaining vials have the manufacturer's labels, the remainder appear to have handwritten labels presumably added by the user as vials were refilled.
label: Description
content: This drug kit belonged to William M. Wegmann, M.D. (b. April 4, 1873; d. March 11, 1964) who practiced medicine in Bladen, Nebraska. In 1905 Wegmann married physician Sarah J. Boland (1880-1946), a 1902 graduate of Kansas City Hahnemann Medical College.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, St. Louis
label: associated place
content: United States: Nebraska, Bladen
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Thomas Gillilland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0337.02
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0337.02
label: accession number
content: 1990.0337
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drug Kit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper; organic material (unspecified); paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall - vial: 9.2 cm x 2 cm x 2 cm; 3 5/8 in x 25/32 in x 25/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.2 cm x 23 cm x 5 cm; 4 1/32 in x 9 1/16 in x 1 31/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: open: 13 1/2 in x 19 in x 1 1/4 in; 34.29 cm x 48.26 cm x 3.175 cm