SEM. SYNAPIS
date: label: date made
content: 1790-1810
label: Date made
content: 1775 - 1799
notes: label: Description
content: This drug jar is marked <i>SEM. SYNAPIS</i>. Sem. Synapis, Synapi or Sinapi are the white or black seeds from the mustard plant. The seeds were used as an appetite stimulant for digestion, and as a laxative. It could also be used as an irritant for blistering and when made into mustard plasters.
label: Description
content: Pharmaceutical historian George Urdang attributes 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 history scholar Wolfgang-Hagen Hein wrote that the containers without initials and those marked <i>FH</i> were made in Florsheim in the German state of Hesse.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
label: Subject
content: Medicine
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content: Medicine and Science: 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
label: Related Publication
content: Estes, J. Worth. Dictionary of Protopharmacology: Therapeutic Practices, 1700-1850
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: 1991.0664.0807
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 731
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0807
objectType: 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 5/16 in x 4 5/16 in