Medicine Chests

**Definition:** Boxes in which physicians kept their drugs and other medications, medical instruments and supplies, manuals, etc. As a carrying case or convenient storage receptacle, or a kind of portable pharmacy, the medicine chest was indispensable to the itinerant physician. The chest was usually larger and sturdier than a doctor's kit or bag.

**Tree numbers:** - E07.546

**Synonyms:** - Chest, Medicine - Chests, Medicine - Medicine Chest