MUSCUS HELMINTOCH
date: label: Date made
content: 1775 - 1799
label: date made
content: 1790-1810
notes: label: Description
content: The interior of the medallion of this jar is marked, <i>MUSCUS HELMINTOCH</i> Muscus helminithocortos is a mixture of lichen, plants, and zoophytes meant to rid the patient of intestinal worms.
label: Description
content: This majolica drug jar has a wide mouth and a whitish gray glaze. The jar is decorated with a painted garland of blue and purple flowers with green leaves framing a yellow and black oval medallion. The bottom of the jar is marked <i>HN</i>.
label: Description
content: Pharmacy historian George Urdang attributes the containers 1991.0664.0760 through 1991.0664.0825 to Hanau in the late 18th century, based on the floral design surrounding the medallion and the initials <i>HN</i> on the bottom of many of the jars in the series. However, in a letter to museum curators dated August 1983, the pharmaceutical historian Wolfgang Hagen Hein wrote that he believes the containers without and those marked <i>FH</i> were made in Florsheim in the Germanstate of Hesse.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Hanau
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: 1991.0664.0809
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-06021
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 733
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0809
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Other Terms
content: jar; Pharmaceutical Container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16.1 cm x 11 cm; 6 11/32 in x 4 11/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/8 in x 4 3/8 in; 16.1925 cm x 11.1125 cm