PHYSICIAN'S SADDLE BAG

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Title

PHYSICIAN'S SADDLE BAG

Description

Two leather buckled pouches connected by a wide leather band (hand sewn).

First bag includes:

  • Small circular paper box with pills
  • "Pil Rhil comp Doscii or ii"
  • Paper wrapped with string: "Gentian"
  • Paper wrapped with string: "Chalk mixture"
Second bag includes: 

  • Shaped leather pouch with 5 vials (some corked) (4 blown glass) One embossed D?M? ORE's ESSENCE LFE
  • Hand sewn deerskin pouch with 5 blown glass corked vials (some corks with initials) 
  • Hand swen leather pouch with 4 vials corked with residual powder (some ? insect/animal damage to leather) 
Laminated Card:

"A physician’s saddle bag formerly pwned and used by Dr. Eleazar Pomeroy Hunt, father of Dr. E.K. Hunt. Dr. Elezear Hunt began the practice of medicine about 1800 and was the most beloved and honored physician throughout Tolland county for 67 years."

Date

19th c

Format

25x10x12 cm

Identifier

BK052: Images 1382, 1384, 1385, 1386, 1403

Files

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Collection

Doctor's Bags

Citation

“PHYSICIAN'S SADDLE BAG,” Hartford Medical Society Archives, accessed May 4, 2024, https://hartfordmedicalsociety.omeka.net/items/show/54.

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