Glass bottle with a glass stopper that is covered with a piece of leather with string wrapped round. Cream coloured powder/crystals inside. Printed label reads "Pure Tannin". Second label has handwritten instructions and printed company name "Twinberrow, Dispensing Chemist, 2, Edwards Street, Portman Square." On tannin: Druitt 1844: “This (…) is the principle to which oak bark, catechu, and other vegetable astringents owe their properties.”  prefers it over bark tinctures, as it is purer and easier to measure precisely. Uses it for sore nipples, excoriations of the anus and scrotum, piles, leucorrhoea, atonic phagedenic sores, toothache, aphtous sores in the mouth, severe salivation, and relaxed sore throat, Never given it internally, but thinks it might help for menorrhagia and haematuria. Savory & Moore 1878, p. 4: “Acid, tannic, or tannin. This acid is a powerful stringent. It is prescribed in menorrhagia, haematuria, haemoptysis, hectic sweating, diarrhoea, and dysentric affections; also as a gargle in relaxed uvula.”