Object Details
- Description
- This blown and molded glass jar has a baked enamel label surrounded by a gold escutcheon topped by a gold crown. The label is marked with the alchemical symbols for Mercury and Precipitate and RUBR. The jar would have contained red mercuric oxide, which was used as an escharotic, a salve to kill tissue and remove dead skin cells.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0463
- catalog number
- M-05612
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 324
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0463
- Object Name
- bottle
- Measurements
- overall: 8.4 cm x 5 cm; 3 5/16 in x 1 31/32 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_993962
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-8039-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
