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MeSH Heading: Medicine Chests
Tree Number(s): E07.546
Unique ID: D019026
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019026
Annotation: do not confuse with the modern medicine cabinet: read MeSH definition; may be used for doctor's bags; often in hist contexts so check hist tags
Scope Note: Boxes in which physicians kept their drugs and other medications, medical instruments and supplies, manuals, etc. As a carrying case or convenient storage receptacle, or a kind of portable pharmacy, the medicine chest was indispensable to the itinerant physician. The chest was usually larger and sturdier than a doctor's kit or bag.
Entry Version: MED CHESTS
Entry Term(s): Chest, Medicine; Chests, Medicine; Medicine Chest
Public MeSH Note: 96
History Note: 96
Date Established: 1996/01/01
Date of Entry: 1995/06/08
Revision Date: 2004/07/28

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects (AE)

classification (CL)

economics (EC)

ethics (ES)

history (HI)

microbiology (MI)

parasitology (PS)

standards (ST)

statistics & numerical data (SN)

supply & distribution (SD)

trends (TD)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Concept UI: M0028404
Scope Note: Boxes in which physicians kept their drugs and other medications, medical instruments and supplies, manuals, etc. As a carrying case or convenient storage receptacle, or a kind of portable pharmacy, the medicine chest was indispensable to the itinerant physician. The chest was usually larger and sturdier than a doctor's kit or bag.
Terms: Medicine Chests Preferred Term
Term UI T056768
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1996); Chest, Medicine
Term UI T056765
Date01/13/1995
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1996); Chests, Medicine
Term UI T056766
Date01/13/1995
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1996); Medicine Chest
Term UI T056767
Date01/13/1995
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1996)

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