Z: ALUM: UST
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: This urn-shaped blown-glass jar has rounded shoulders and a flared neck with a round glass stopper in its mouth. The opaqueness of the glass comes from the addition of tin oxide in an attempt to mimic porcelain. The jar has a gold shield decorated with red and blue flowers, with a label inside the shield that reads <i>ALUM UST</i> in black. This jar would have contained <i>Alumen ustum</i>, or heated alumen. Alumen ustum was chiefly used as a caustic for irritating the skin.
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: 1991.0664.0473
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05622
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0473.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0473.02
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 334
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.5 cm x 5.5 cm; 4 1/2 in x 2 3/16 in