Object Details
- Description
- This blown and molded square-shaped apothecary jar has a baked enamel label marked TINCT ALOES. Today aloe is mostly known for the soothing juice extracted from its leaves when applied to burns. Many people keep an aloe plant in their kitchen for such use. It has also been used for insomnia and as a purgative for stomach ailments. (Freeman, p. 19, Drey, p. 184, Estes pgs. 6–7)
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 18th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0248
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05396
- collector/donor number
- SAP 105
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0248
- Object Name
- bottle
- Other Terms
- bottle; Pharmaceutical Container
- Physical Description
- paint (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13.1 cm x 7 cm x 6.8 cm; 5 3/16 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 11/16 in
- Related Publication
- Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
- Margaret B. Freeman. Herbs for the Mediaeval Household
- Estes, J. Worth. Dictionary of Protopharmacology: Therapeutic Practices, 1700-1850
- Drey, Rudolf E.A.. Apothecary Jars
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Health & Medicine
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_993881
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-b7e9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
