Economic Botany Collections

Student materia medica set

Cabinet B

Portable materia medica sets like this one would have been used to teach pharmacy students. They could easily be transported and used for examinations. The exact provenance of these student sets is not known. However, we do know that they were used in the School of Pharmacy's Major Exams and are well-worn. The items in this cabinet were cleaned, and some replaced, at Bradford in 1971.

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