This jar was ploughed up in a field in Lincolnshire.

A piece of equipment used in conjunction with a lot of soapy water if the contents of the previous item didn't work!

Mystery item. Possibly a tooth pick given as a "freebie" by a drugs company rep. to a pharmacist.

Eye ointment pedestals used before the advent of ointment tubes. The ointment was held in the shallow dish and the whole thing placed over the infected eye.

Pill boxes were usually made from cardboard but some, as on the right, were turned from wood.

Another mystery item. Looks like it may have been an ink stamp.

Good example of the old fashioned double ended baby bottle (guaranteed to give the baby wind). Makers name etched into glass.

Device to measure very small amounts of liquid - a minim measure. There were 60 minims to a drachm and 8 drachms to the ounce.

Powders were wrapped in unit doses, this device ensured that each powder was folded to exactly the same dimensions before being tied together with red string.

A Nelson's Inhaler-Named after its inventor, Dr. Nelson. Hot water and a volatile liquid were placed in the container.

Used to prepare suppositories or bougies (right). The latter were for inserting into a nostril or other narrow orifice (work it out yourself!)

An Infusion Pot-Used like a tea pot. Leaves etc. were placed on a grid in the top and hot water poured in to produce a medicinal liquor.

Pill Machine-Pills were made from a solid mass (the consistency of plasticine) before tabletting processes were invented.

Traditional L.U.G (label under glass) drug jars. I was very pleased last year to be asked by Chester Museum for copies of these and other images for use in preparing posters for an exhibition they had planned.

Not an original (which would cost an arm and a leg) but a copy of one held in the Pharmaceutical Society of GB museum. Presented to me by colleagues on my retirement.

An attractive drug jar; the contents are held in a removable inner liner.

A bottle stopper (cork) top dating c. 1900.

Device used before pressurised aerosols made their appearance.

A traditional mortar and pestle made from Wedgewood.

Glass ear syringe which covers just about every orifice!