pill silverer
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- Dates
- 1890
- 1920
- circa 1890-1920
- Collection
- Nova Scotia Hospital Collection
- Category
- Pharmacy and Drug Artifacts
- Mental Health
- Classification
- Pharmacy, General
- Mental Health
- Mental Health, Treatment
- Accession Number
- 009027004 a-b
- Description
- Light brown, hand turned wooden pill silverer is spherical in shape and has two halves that screw together; top piece (a) has a small decorative ridge just above where it screws to the bottom piece (b) and a small circular groove on the top; bottom piece has a decorative base which narrows at the b…
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- Accession Number
- 009027004 a-b
- Collection
- Nova Scotia Hospital Collection
- Category
- Pharmacy and Drug Artifacts
- Mental Health
- Classification
- Pharmacy, General
- Mental Health
- Mental Health, Treatment
- MeSH Heading
- Pharmacy -- instrumentation
- Mental Health
- Mental Health -- hospital
- Mental Health -- laboratory
- Mental Health -- laboratory -- equipment
- Mental Health -- laboratory -- equipment -- drug compounding
- Description
- Light brown, hand turned wooden pill silverer is spherical in shape and has two halves that screw together; top piece (a) has a small decorative ridge just above where it screws to the bottom piece (b) and a small circular groove on the top; bottom piece has a decorative base which narrows at the base and flares out to form the base of the object; there is a white and subtle residue on the inside
- Number Of Parts
- 2
- Provenance
- From the Nova Scotia Hospital.
- Dates
- 1890
- 1920
- circa 1890-1920
- Material
- wood: brown
- Permanent Location
- Storage Room 0010
- 0010-A8-1
- Temporary Location
- On display, Queen's University Department of Medicine third floor, August 20, 2013.
- Unit Of Measure
- centimeters
- Dimension Notes
- Length 8.6 cm x Width 6.0 cm x Depth 8.7 cm
- Condition Remarks
- There are three vertical hairline cracks and two larger vertical cracks in the top piece where it screws to the bottom piece; wear marks are present on the bottom of the object as well as where the two pieces screw together; there is a residue present inside the object that was not removed during the cleaning process to preserve provenance
- Copy Type
- Original
- Reference Types
- Internet
- JPG
- Reference Comments
- "Nova Scotia Hospital article Wikipedia" website; "Go Antiques" website; "Royal Pharmaceutical Society" website; "Apothecary Collectibles" website; CD #7
- Research Facts
- Pill silverers were used throughout the 18th and mid 19th Centuries to coat pills with silver or gold; gold or silver leaf was placed inside the apparatus, the pills were moistened with a few drops of liquid vegetable gum and then placed inside, the top was put on and the apparatus was rotated for a few minutes coating the pills in either gold or silver; the Nova Scotia Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and is currently the province's largest mental health facility; the hospital was co-founded by the Hon. Hugh Bell and Dorothy Dix and opened its doors in 1858 as the Mount Hope Asylum for the Insane; today it is a fully accredited teaching facility affiliated with Dalhousie University
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