Medicine chest

All ships governed by the regulations of the International Maritime Organization must have medical supplies and suitable storage for them such as refrigeration and locks.

[1] In Canada medicine chest has a related, symbolic meaning.

Under the terms of Treaty 6 between the Canadian government and several bands of First Nations people ("Indians"), the government was required to supply each Indian reserve with a medicine chest.

That has been interpreted as an ongoing responsibility for the government to provide healthcare to First Nations people.

[2] This medical article is a stub.

Made by Burroughs Wellcome & Co, this chest was used by Robert Falcon Scott on the first part of Terra Nova Expedition . Such cases, made of lightweight metal, airtight and waterproof, were used by various explorers from the 1880s onwards, including Henry Morton Stanley , Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen .