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Equipment and Supplies > Medicine Chests

Preferred term

Medicine Chests  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Chest, Medicine
  • Chests, Medicine
  • Medicine Chest

Note

  • do not confuse with the modern medicine cabinet: read MeSH definition; may be used for doctor's bags; often in hist contexts so check hist tags

Scope note

  • Boxes in which physicians kept their drugs and other medications, medical instruments and supplies, manuals, etc. As a carrying case or convenient storage receptacle, or a kind of portable pharmacy, the medicine chest was indispensable to the itinerant physician. The chest was usually larger and sturdier than a doctor's kit or bag.

History note

  • 96

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019026

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