Object Details
- Description
- This turned wooden conical drug jar and lid has remnants of red paint and is decorated with a brown cartouche. The cartouche is painted white in the interior and is marked with a symbol for antimony and the text “PLEURITIC M.” Pleurisy root was used as an antispasmodic, diaphoretic, expectorant, and tonic. The jar contains sixty very thin wooden picks, pointed at each end. It is unlikely that the sticks were original to the jar, and their use is unknown.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0883
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06093
- 1991.0664.0883.01
- 1991.0664.0883.02
- collector/donor number
- SAP 805
- Object Name
- jar
- jar
- Other Terms
- jar; Pharmaceutical Container
- Physical Description
- turnen wood (overall production method/technique)
- wood (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13.6 cm x 7.6 cm; 5 11/32 in x 3 in
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 in; 13.97 cm x 7.62 cm
- place made
- Germany
- 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_994576
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-76c2-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
