TROCH BECH CITR
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: This is a wide mouthed drug jar with a white tin glaze. At the top of the blue rococo cartouche, a hand holds three flowers flanked by a “C” scroll and castle tower (possibly a bishops insignia). The interior of the cartouche is marked in black, “TROCH BECH CITR.” In the <i>Squibb Ancient Pharmacy Catalogue</i>, George Urdang attributes this jar to the town of Fluda. However, Professor Wolfgang Hagen Hein believed the jar to be from the town of Durlach within the region of Baden Wurttemburg in southwest Germany near the French border. In his letter dated August 29, 1983, Hein cites page 144 in his book coauthored with Dirk Arnold Wittop Koning <i>Deutsche Apotheken Fayencen</i>. Trochisci Bechici Citrus was a small cake or lozenge made with a citrus fruit to alleviate respiratory ailments.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
label: Related Publication
content: Hein, W.H., and D.A. Wittop Koning. Deutsche Apotheken-Fayencen
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0664.0722
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05934
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 646
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0722
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Other Terms
content: jar; Pharmaceutical Container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.6 cm x 10.5 cm; 4 15/16 in x 4 1/8 in