RUBR
notes: label: Description
content: This blown and molded glass jar has a baked enamel label surrounded by a gold escutcheon topped by a gold crown. The label is marked with the alchemical symbols for Mercury and Precipitate and <i>RUBR.</i> The jar would have contained red mercuric oxide, which was used as an escharotic, a salve to kill tissue and remove dead skin cells.
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: 1991.0664.0463
label: catalog number
content: M-05612
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 324
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0463
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.4 cm x 5 cm; 3 5/16 in x 1 31/32 in