OL: CARVI
notes: label: Description
content: This square bottle with its separate dome–shaped cover probably contained an extract made from caraway seeds. The baked enamel label is marked, "OL: CARVI." The bottle would have contained Oil of Carui, or oil of caraway seeds. This oil was used as a stomachic (to improve appetite and digestion), a carminative (to ease flatulence), or as a diuretic.
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: 1991.0664.0461
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05610
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 322
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0461.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0461.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.7 cm x 4.2 cm x 4.2 cm; 4 7/32 in x 1 21/32 in x 1 21/32 in