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Description: | TARTAR EMETIC POISON
Glass bottle with cork stopper. Contains white powder. Label: 'Tartar Emetic Poison' . Contained in the drawer. Contained in the wooden medicine chest with brass plate on the lid inscribed 'Sir Edward Parry' lined with red velvet. Has a chip out of the rim of the bottle. Antimony potassium tartrate; used since the Middle Ages as an emetic and in the twentieth century as a treatment for trypanosomiasis (potentially lethal diseases caused by parasites, i.e. sleeping sickness) but is very poisonous and is no longer used as medicine.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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