Oil Expressed from Antidote Seeds, Fevillea cordifolia
date: label: date made
content: ca1884
notes: label: Description
content: Glass, narrow necked, bottle with cork stopper and remaining part of paper seal. Paper labels on back and front of bottle. Bottle full of yellow oily solid. Paper label on front of bottle: "Oil / Expressed from / Antidote Seeds / Prepared By / S. T. Scharschmidt / Jamaica." Paper label on back: "JAMAICA COURT / ..." (The "Jamaica Court" was an exhibition by the Government of Jamaica at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, 1884–1885.)
label: Description
content: From the "Descriptive Catalogue of Plants" in the 1890 Report of the United States Secretary of Agriculture, page 576: "Feuillaea Cordifolia. The sequa or cacoon antidote of Jamaica - It belongs to the cucumber family, and climbs to a great height up the trunks of trees - The seeds are employed as a remedy in a variety of diseases, and are considered an antidote against the effects of poison; they also contain a quantity of semisolid fatty oil, which is liberated by pressing and boiling them in water.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Jamaica: Jamaica
topic: label: related event
content: World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.002655
label: catalog number
content: 002655
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fevillea Cordifolia
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Fevillea Cordifolia; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Fevillea cordifolia, antidote caccoon (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 2 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 6.35 cm x 3.81 cm