The first aid kit at Waikawa Museum where picric acid 246, the yellow tin, was stored. That’s been the case in two provincial museums in the past week, an alarming proposition for museum-goers. Supplied Picric acid was the reason for the evacuation of the Napier library and museum building this week. supplied Rosemary McLeod once rescued a century-old homeopathic medicine kit that contained a miniature syringe with a tiny bottle of tablets labelled heroin. The bottles were mostly gone, or empty, but my surprise discovery was a miniature syringe with a tiny bottle of tablets labelled heroin.

Source: Stuff July 08, 2021 16:52 UTC