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Collection ID:	LIB-HSL001
Collection Title:	McGuire Medical Instruments Collection
Department:	Health Sciences Library
Institution:	State University of New York at Buffalo
Item ID:	06.04.01.5
Title:	Brass pill press
Alternate Title:	Pill press
Vendor:	Phisick Medical Antiques
Date:	Early 20th cent.
Material Type:	Pill press
Medium:	Brass
Dimensions:	19x5.5 cm
Notes:	Image 101-1716
Subject Heading(s) (LCSH):	Drugs--Packaging
Subject Heading(s) (MeSH):	Drug Packaging
Category:	Medicine Receptacles
Collector:	Cravens, Annette
Description:	High quality and unusual brass pill press engraved "Patent Richard Simon Nottingham" and numbered 251 on both the handle and the head. An intricate mechanism with a hinged lid allows the pills to be pressed into a template. The pill "dough" would then be cut by means of the attached rotating knife and then removed on an early bakelite perforated plate.
File Size:	570 Bytes
Rights Management:	Contact the History of Medicine Collection, http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/history/
DCMI Type:	Image Still image
File Name:	index.cpd

Collection Title:	McGuire Medical Instruments Collection
Department:	Health Sciences Library
Institution:	State University of New York at Buffalo
Title:	06.04.01.5.A
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Rights Management:	Contact the History of Medicine Collection, http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/history/
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