CORAL ALB..
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: This blown and molded square-shaped glass drug jar has a round wooden lid, and the it is decorated with a white cartouche framed by stylized blue leaves and red and yellow flowers. The baked enamel label is marked <i>CORA ALB</i>. Coral was used for centuries for a variety of ills including the reduction of fever, the prevention of bleeding in pregnant women, gastric pain, and to protect infants from convulsions.
label: Description
content: According to George Urdang, author of <i>The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy Catalogue</i> this bottle was manufactured in the last third of the 18th century. The lid is likely not original to the container. (This also applies to lids .198—.200).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: unspecified
content: Germany
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
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content: Health & Medicine
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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: 1991.0664.0197
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05345
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 54
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0197.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0197.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Other Terms
content: jar; PHARMACEUTICAL CONTAINER
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: colorless (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: hand blown (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.7 cm x 5.5 cm x 5.5 cm; 4 3/16 in x 2 3/16 in x 2 3/16 in