Drugs and Packaging

This page lists items in the database related to remarkable Museum samples of drugs with their cases or packaging:

• Alexander Fleming’s Penicillin specimen in the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum, St Mary’s Hospital, London

• Andrea Giorgio’s personal collection of drugs in Altamura

• Aspirin old samples and advertisements in the Musée des Plantes Médicinales et de la Pharmacie, Brussels

• Balsamo Innocenziano in the Antica Farmacia Pesci, Rome

• Burroughs Wellcome & Co’s “Tabloid” in the St. Thomas’ Hospital’s old Herb Garret, London

• Castellani’s paint in the Sziklakórház – Hospital in the Rock Museum, Budapest

• Cinchona bark’s wooden chest in Roma

• Cinchona samples in the Musée des Plantes Médicinales et de la Pharmacie, Brussels

• Dyes and Drugs showcase in the Musée des Plantes Médicinales et de la Pharmacie, Brussels

• Filippa Mareri’s museum in Borgo San Pietro

• Homeopathy Historical Section in the Museo delle arti sanitarie, Ospedale degli Incurabili, Naples

• State’s Quinine samples in the Pontine Marshes clearance collection of the Museo Piana delle Orme, near Latina

• The Albarelli from the Antica Spezieria in Laterza

• The Giustiniani Medicine Chest in the The Science and Art of Medicine gallery of the Science Museum, London

• Theriaca’s vase in the Antica Spezieria di Santa Maria della Scala in Rome

Bibliography

– M.Vanhaelen – R.Vanhaelen-Fastré, Plantes d’autrefois, médicaments d’aujourd’hui, Musée des Plantes Médicinales et de la Pharmacie, Bruxelles 2005, pp. 234.