Doc in a Box, circa 1900
The weather was nice Sunday, so J suggested that we go to "the cursed object place", which is really Affordable Antiques in Naperville. And it did not disappoint. I found, in booth number 504 belonging to "Christa", this treasure of a doctor's bag from around 1900, complete with hemostats, scissors,gauze, how-to books and medicine. I'm sure I made an interesting picture on the closed-circuit camera as I got down on all fours and squished my nose against the glass, trying to read labels--I also sneaked the photo above and I am glad it came out somewhat, though it's possible that a good camera phone would be better for this kind of guerilla photography than my pocket Canon is. Unfortunately not all the tubes were turned to the right angle for me to read the labels, but here was what I could see: nitroglycerine (probably for heart ailments..I'm not sure how stable or unstable that amount of nitro is in a small jar, but I did carefully take my hands of...