"Portable Travel Pharmacy Circa 1910-1930"
Elegant little pharmacy containing nearly 40 medicines and various first-aid instruments, all original, and mostly bearing descriptive labels "R. Ronsin": Boric acid, phenic acid, soothing balm, ipecac tablets, gargle tablets, rhubarb tablets, quinine tablets, lemon balm water, Laudanum, laxative pills, etc.With its advertising leaflet and its notice listing the illnesses and accidents that can be treated completely by these pharmacies. "The touring-pharmacies are portable pharmacies, built for travels, countryside, castles, colonies and even for city dwellers: in a word, for people happy to have at home, always at hand, all the medicines of a common use."
Bears the inscription in gold on the inside of the lid: "TOURING PHARMACIE / n°2 / R. Ronsin, Puteaux, France".