Object Details
- Description
- The label of this urn–shaped blown glass jar is applied with the cold paint technique in the rococo style. The white escutcheon is outlined in gold and framed with vines of red and blue flowers, and is marked, EXTR. LAUDANI THEOPHRAST VITAE"
- Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493–1541), more commonly known as Paracelsus, was a Swiss physician who is notable for his invention of Laudanum as well as his rejection of Galenic humoral medical practice, and for introducing chemistry to the practice of medicine. This jar would have contained Theophrastus’s formula for the extract of laudanum vitae. Laudanum is an opium tincture that was used as a sedative, an antidiarrheal, an antitussive, and an analgesic.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 18th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0408
- catalog number
- M-05557
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 269
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0408
- Object Name
- jar
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10.6 cm x 10.9 cm; 4 3/16 in x 4 9/32 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_993959
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-7cd7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
