Medicinal "For Neuralgia" or "Best Wishes Ointment"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1892
notes: label: Description
content: Paper wrapped box with red and yellow geometric design and red paper label on one side with black Chinese characters. Box contains one thick glass vial with cork stopper and red paper label with black inked Chinese characters. Some dark liquid remains in glass vial. English language paper label affixed to box reads: "142281 / For Neuralgia / Gift of J. H. Jennings."
label: Description
content: Maker: Tài Hé Táng (name of company); Store is in the town of Foshan in Eastern Guangdong near Foshan Ancestral Temple.
label: Description
content: Vial was found wrapped in folded paper insert which may not belong to this medicine. The insert refers to a medicine for stranguria (strangury: slow, painful, frequent urination, or straining to urinate). Insert, as translated, reads in part: "To treat symptoms such as stranguria due to humidity and heat, turbid urine, pain or disharmony between the heart and kidneys, spermatorrhea, etc. This pill can improve the clearness of urine [?], dispel dampness and purge fire, allow the “qi” to rebalance and relieve the turbidity of stranguria and kidneys. Take 3 servings [?] with hot water with each dose."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (paper insert)
place: label: place made
content: China: Canton, Foshan
label: associated place
content: China
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: J. H. Jennings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.142281
label: catalog number
content: 142281
label: accession number
content: 26492
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crude drug
label: Other Terms
content: Crude Drug; Materia Medica; Drugs; Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 3 1/8 in x 7/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 7.9375 cm x 2.2225 cm