Pill cutter, Europe, 1801-1900

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Pill machine for crafting up to thirty pills by hand, likely dating back to the nineteenth century. In the eighteen hundreds, pills were sliced from a long, extensive roll of a mixture containing the drug and cut into fragments. The dosage could be calculated by measuring the length of the roll and dividing it by the number of identical pills. This pill cutter enabled the pills to be divided more precisely into equal pieces. It is operated manually and capable of creating thirty pills in one operation. It also has space for rolling out the mixture. OBJECT NUMBER: A640431 https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co128923/ Loan: Wellcome Trust RIGHTS: Data in the title, made, maker and details fields are released under Creative Commons Zero Descriptions and all other text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence Scanned using Cyreal multi camera photogrammetry platform www.cyreal.com The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum