BUTTYR CACAO
date: label: Date made
content: 1775 - 1799
label: date made
content: 1790-1810
notes: label: Description
content: This drug jar is marked "BUTTYR CACAO". Cacao was brought to Europe by explorers returning from the new world. It had been used for centuries by the indigenous peoples of South America. The contents of this jar would have held Cocoa butter extracted from the yellowish-white fat of the cacao bean, and used as a soothing ointment for burns. It was also used as the base for making suppositories.
label: Description
content: Pharmaceutical historian George Urdang, author of <i>The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy Catalogue</i> attributes containers 1991.0664.0760 through 1991.0664.0825 to Hanau in the late 18th century based on the floral design surrounding the medallion and the initials "HN" on the bottom of many of the jars in the series. However, in a letter to museum curator dated August 1983, the pharmaceutical historian Wolfgang-Hagen Hein wrote that the containers without initials and those marked "FH" were made in Florsheim in the German state of Hesse.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
label: Subject
content: Medicine
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content: Medicine and Science: 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: 1991.0664.0802
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 726
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0802
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: 16 cm x 11.3 cm; 6 5/16 in x 4 7/16 in