Collectibles Series
Many nurses who honor and cherish our profession's history acquire artifacts and ephemera from nursing's past. These items often provide glimpses into long ago nurses or illuminate the practice of an earlier age.
Medicine Cups
Before disposable plastic and pre-measured dosages, nurses used glass medicine cups to dispense liquid medicines. And of course the nurse was responsible for cleaning them before use. The minim glass on the right was for measuring small doses and those that were diluted.
Below is a medicine spoon, whimsically shaped like a whale. It measures 2.75 inches in length and 1 inch in height. Because there were no markings for precise measurement, nurses were exhorted not use these spoons.\ But they were used in homes, this one possibly for children.
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