Clarke’s blood mixture

Amongst the many medical items we have in the museum there is a blue glass bottle which once contained Clarke’s blood mixture. Clarke’s were a medicaments firm based in Lincoln in England. A...

Mustard Ointment

Mustard Ointment was one of those remedies for many things that used to be popular and remain popular. In fact in some ways using unproven remedies is even more common these days. Science and scientis...

Nasty Stuff

We suppose it is almost inevitable that in amongst our medical items at Market Lavington Museum we’ll have some nasty stuff. Coramine certainly falls in that bracket. Apparently this was widely u...

Medical Supplies

Time was (and still is, no doubt) when households kept stocks of proprietary remedies for many ills and ailments. Here we see a small selection of bottles and tins of household medicaments. The nea...