Medicine Bottle
Description
Used for storage medicine and kept in a medical chest. Health problems were a serious concern in the 18th century navy. Disease affected the officers and crewmen alike. Poxes, plagues, cholera, fevers and scurvy could rage through a ship with no effective treatment. The surgeon often had the skill and medicine aboard to treat many illnesses but a sailor was far more likely to die from disease or accident than be killed in action. On certain stations the mortality rate was as high as one in seven.
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Object Detail
Catalogue Number
INV.62
Classification
Collection
Measurement Display
Height: 70mm
Width: 22mm
Depth: 22mm (7/8")
Width: 22mm
Depth: 22mm (7/8")
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