Name/Title
kit, medicalEntry/Object ID
L2025.002.006Description
Medical kit. Wooden four-tiered display box for holding glass medicine bottles. Front of box has small decorative metal plaque engraved "JAMES ED WINELLE MD. (Intelligible, possibly "May") 5th,1875" and a large drawer with a metal pop out handle. Smaller drawer can be found on left side of box. Three bottom tiers of the shelf have removable wooden holders for holding 5 medium sized bottles each, top tier missing holder.Context
Although little is known about Dr. Winelle, the owner of this medicine display case, they were commonly found in doctors' offices in the 1800s. Medicines were often mixed by the physicians themselves or purchased from an apothecary shop. On loan from the Carroll County Farm Museum.Exhibition
Main Street at Work: Merchants and Medicine in Carroll CountyIntake
Loan In
Credit Line
Credit to the Carroll County Farm MuseumGeneral Notes
Note
No accession number on object, but is believed to be 68.67.1. Deed of Gift from Carroll County Farm Museum reads "Doctor Kit, with medicine bottles etc. (out of house of Dr. J. E. B. Weaver, Manchester).
