Green leather-covered box with profile of Samuel Hahnemann in gold on cover. Inside the top cover is a list of 86 medicines contained in the case. Numbered cork tops and corresponding labels on glass vials with medicines (small white balls) are in the case. Nos. 1, 7, 9, 35, 78. are vacant. 79 through 86 are "Tinctures For External Use." Interior paper label reads, "Prepared and sold at the Homeopathic Pharmacy of /William Radde, No. 635 Arch Street, Philadelphia"
Typed card: "Medicine chest/ property of Dr. William/ Shelly of Lititz PA./ through Dr. John Atlee 1938."
There is a key to the case.
Provenance
Dr. William Addison Shelly was born May 15, 1818 and died Jan. 15, 1863.
