Object Details
- Description
- This blown and molded glass bottle with stopper has a baked enamel label marked, OL RUTAE. Oil of Rutae is made from the herb Ruta graveolens more commonly known as Rue. The leaves of the herb are distilled in alcohol and used as a stimulant, an antispasmodic, for convulsions and hysteria, and as an abortifacient, to induce a miscarriage.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 17th-18th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0466
- catalog number
- M-05615
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 327
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0466
- Object Name
- bottle
- Measurements
- overall: 9.7 cm x 3.4 cm x 3.4 cm; 3 13/16 in x 1 11/32 in x 1 11/32 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_993768
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-cb90-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
