This folding viewer for individual stereoscopic pictures has a cut-out between the lenses to accommodate the nose of the user. The original folding viewer was patented by J. F. Mascher of Philadelphia in March 1853 and was designed to hold stereoscopic portraits using the daguerreotype process. This was at the very end of the daguerreotype era, and originals are quite rare.Metal stereo viewer and many cards including stereoscopic photographs of crystal modals (Bragg's Crystal, Fluorspar, caesieum chloride, zinc-blende, iron pyrites, quartz, Tellurirumetc), and Dr Mullers Universal X-Ray Spectrograph. stereoscope, adam hilger, sir william bragg, w.i. bragg, dr muller, x-ray, crystal, spinel, bismuth, diamond structure, tartaric acid, naphthalene

Rochelle salts, or potassium sodium tartrate, are a type of tartaric acid which was used medically as a laxative similar to sena and tartar Emetic.The right one of two marching small sized wood drawers. Each drawer features one sliding lid on their top face which has a corresponding paper label depending on its contents as well as a small semi-circle notch, these lids slide vertically in one direction. These drawers are found in the front storage location of the parent item and bellow a row of medium sized drawers.Rochelle Saltsvolum collection, medicine

This box contained Seidlitz Powders. These powders were used for indigestion and constipation with the name coming from the village of Sedlec or Sedlitz which was the source of a bitter mineral water once used for indigestion. The 19th century product was produced by many chemical factories with nothing to do with the original Sedlitz town. The powders were a mixture of tartaric acid, sodium bicarbonate and potassium sodium tartrate. This box contained powders distributed by the chemist firm of Sambell and Son. John Sambell came to Warrnambool in 1886 and three generations of the Sambell family conducted chemist shops in four different locations in Fairy Street. Sambell and Son were operating at 151 Fairy Street in the late 1910s and in the 1920s. This is an item of interest as it not only shows us the type of box used by chemists t0 package their medicines in the 1920s but also reminds us of the days when Seidlitz Powers were commonly used for indigestion and constipation. It also has a strong link to the Sambell family, chemists in Warrnambool for over 40 years. This is an empty cream-coloured cardboard box with a lid with blue edgings and printed material in blue type and a British crest and an ornamental pattern around the edges of the lid. The sides of the box are torn and the box is discoloured and dirty. Superior Genuine, Seidlitz Powders, prepared by Sambell & Son, Dispensing Chemists, Fairy Street Warrnambool, ‘Phone 90, Directions – Dissolve the contents of one of the BLUE papers in half a pint of cold water, add the contents of one of the WHITE papers, and drink during a state of effervescence’sambell and son, chemists, seidlitz powders, warrnambool

Seidlitz powders were a vintage, effervescent, and mild laxative and digestive regulator popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Named after the Bohemian village of Seidlitz (now Sedlec in the Czech Republic), they were commonly used to relieve constipation, heartburn, and gas due to stomach acidity. Seidlitz powders is the generic name under which a commonly known laxative and digestion regulator was marketed and sold by numerous manufacturers, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The effervescing salts consisting of one powder of sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt and another of tartaric acid that are mixed in water and drunk as a mild cathartic. Brown metal box with black decorative pattern and text "Seidlitz Powders C.E Morton London England". Sachets inside were wrapped in tissue paper. A rusty small metal empty vintage brown and black patterned rectangular lidded old tin which contained Seidlitz Powders. The details printed on the lid are almost indescipherable. There is an overall black stylish pattern all over the outside of the lid and base. The powders were commonly used to relieve constipation, heartburn, and gas due to stomach acidity. This tin was used for other purposes when emptied.The print on the top of the lid is indescipherable as to the manufacturer and instructions for use of the Seidlitz Powders. medications, medication containers, containers, medicines