Medicine dispenser, England, 1950-1960
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Made to be mounted on a wall, this dispenser provided a range of basic medicines for the price of 6 pennies. The purchaser could choose from one packet of either aspirin, soda mint (for indigestion and heartburn), Dr MacLean’s stomach power or cascara (a laxative). As the sign on the mirror reads “For the convenience of visitors”, the dispenser may have been placed in a hospital – or perhaps a hotel.
Object number:
2006-285
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Glossary: indigestion
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Glossary: heartburn
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Glossary: aspirin
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Glossary: dispenser
An object, machine or a person that distributes something.
Glossary: laxative
An agent that acts to encourage evacuation of the bowels