Oleoresin of Male Fern (Oleoresina Aspidii)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1918
name: label: maker
content: Frederick Stearns & Company
notes: label: Description
content: Square glass bottle with metal cap and typed paper exhibit label. Bottle is full of dark liquid. Label reads: "Oleoresin of Male Fern / (Oleoresina Aspidii) / Synonym: Liquid extract of male / fern / Source: Dryopteris filix-mas / or marginalis / Habitat: North America / Use: Taeniafuge" [a drug used to expel tapeworms from the body]
label: Description
content: One of thirty-six (36) specimens illustrating the constituents of natural vegatable drugs donated to the museum in 1918 by Frederick Stearns & Company for the pharmacy exhibits. Most of these specimens were replaced with "fresh" specimens in 1929 (see Accession 105154).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: /
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-00213
label: catalog number
content: M-00213
label: accession number
content: 62370
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Oleoresina Aspidii; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass; metal (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: oleoresin of male fern (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 4.1275 cm x 3.81 cm