TR THEBUIC
notes: label: Description
content: This blown and molded glass jar has a baked enamel label marked, <i>TR THEBUIC.</i> The jar would have contained tincture of thebaica. The tincture was made by letting opium steep in two pints of alcohol. The resulting tincture was used as a sedative, a narcotic, an antitussive, or an antidiarrheal.
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
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: 1991.0664.0462
label: catalog number
content: M-05611
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 323
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0462
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.7 cm x 5.6 cm x 5.5 cm; 4 7/32 in x 2 7/32 in x 2 5/32 in