CASTOR EUM
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: The label applied in the cold paint technique is marked in black and red <i>CASTOR Eum.</i> The jar is blown green glass and is covered with paper secured with string. The late historian J. Worth Estes, former professor of pharmacology at Boston University describes Castoreum as <i>a fatty material from the glands lying between the anus and external glands of the Russian beaver.</i> It was used as a nerve tonic, an antiemetic, and an emmenagogue to hasten menstruation. Today Castoreum is still used in perfumes. The jar contains two folded paper packets.
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: 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: Estes, J. Worth. Dictionary of Protopharmacology: Therapeutic Practices, 1700-1850
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: 1991.0664.0442
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05591
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 303
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0442
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.1 cm x 5.6 cm; 2 13/32 in x 2 7/32 in