Baptisia Tinctoria (Wild Indigo Root)
date: label: date made
content: 1891
notes: label: Description
content: Dried roots of wild indigo in a red paper covered specimen box with a glass top lid. Paper label in box reads: "142,195 / Baptisia tinctoria / Wild Indigo - / Root. Dup."
label: Description
content: From Parke, Davis & Company's Descriptive Catalog (1893): "Wild Indigo. Baptisia Tinctoria, R. Brown. --Purgative, emetic, astringent, antiseptic; used principally on account of the latter virtue. Employed in atonic diseases, in scarlatina, typhus and all cases where there is a tendency to septicaemia; externally as a wash, or ointment for ill conditioned ulcers."
label: Description
content: One of thrirty-six (36) specimens of medicinal botanicals indigenous to the United States. Donated to the National Museum by Parke, Davis & Company in 1891. Beginning in the 1870s, the company sent expeditions into Central, South, and western North America, Fiji Islands, and the West Indies to collect plants used by indigenous peoples as medicines. In this way, the company expanded its product line and introduced new plant drugs to a broader population.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Parke, Davis and Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.142195
label: catalog number
content: 142195
label: accession number
content: 23957
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Crude Drug
label: Other Terms
content: Crude Drug; Materia Medica; Drugs; Vegetable; Root
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wild indigo root (overall material)