Object Details
- Description
- This blown and molded square–shaped bottle has a baked enamel label marked ESS CASTOR in black text. The jar would have contained essence of castoreum, a fatty material derived from a beaver gland that was used as a nerve tonic, an antiemetic (to reduce nausea and vomiting), and an emmenagogue (to induce menstruation).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 17th-18th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0378
- catalog number
- M-05527
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 239
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0378
- Object Name
- bottle
- Other Terms
- bottle; Pharmaceutical Container
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11.7 cm x 5.3 cm x 5.3 cm; 4 19/32 in x 2 3/32 in x 2 3/32 in
- Related Publication
- Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_993850
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-a5ae-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
