EXTR. LAUDANI THEOPHRAST VITAE
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: The label of this urn–shaped blown glass jar is applied with the cold paint technique in the rococo style. The white escutcheon is outlined in gold and framed with vines of red and blue flowers, and is marked, <i>EXTR. LAUDANI THEOPHRAST VITAE</i>"
label: Description
content: Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493–1541), more commonly known as Paracelsus, was a Swiss physician who is notable for his invention of Laudanum as well as his rejection of Galenic humoral medical practice, and for introducing chemistry to the practice of medicine. This jar would have contained Theophrastus’s formula for the extract of laudanum vitae. Laudanum is an opium tincture that was used as a sedative, an antidiarrheal, an antitussive, and an analgesic.
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: 1991.0664.0408
label: catalog number
content: M-05557
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 269
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0408
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.6 cm x 10.9 cm; 4 3/16 in x 4 9/32 in