Medicine Chest

Accession number: 1996.46.1.1-34

This mahogany medicine chest containing many of its original contents belonged to Dr. Richard Thompson Archer, M.D. (1797–1867), a native of Amelia County, Virginia, and later a resident of "Anchuco" near Port Gibson, Mississippi.

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In this video, Outreach Educator Jennifer Nesossis discusses Dr. Richard Thompson Archer and his nineteenth-century English medicine chest.

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