TINCT ALOES
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: This blown and molded square-shaped apothecary jar has a baked enamel label marked <i>TINCT ALOES</i>. 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)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
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content: Health & Medicine
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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: Margaret B. Freeman. Herbs for the Mediaeval Household
label: Related Publication
content: Estes, J. Worth. Dictionary of Protopharmacology: Therapeutic Practices, 1700-1850
label: Related Publication
content: Drey, Rudolf E.A.. Apothecary Jars
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: 1991.0664.0248
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05396
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 105
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0248
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle
label: Other Terms
content: bottle; Pharmaceutical Container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: 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