Date:1850 - 1890 (c.)
Description:Medicine powders often tasted unpleasant. Pharmacists would mix these powders with licorice powder and liguid glucose to make a dough-like mixture. This was rolled into a long pipe which was placed on the brass grooves of the pill machine base board. the two-handled cutter was then placed over it and pushed to and fro until the round pills rolled into the tray at the front. Mahogany, with brass fittings. The pills would then be finished off by rolling them under a tile in the little boxwood pill rounder (inset). From the Staffordshire County Museum collection. Formerly part of the collection of Mr. Ewart Jones of Newbridge Pharmacy, Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton, where he worked from the late 1950s until the mid 1980s.
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Donor ref:97.010.0080 (37/25477)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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