Spongia Officinalis
name: label: maker
content: Lloyd Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: This specimen is one of approximately 187 specimens of materia medica (crude drug material) representing plants introduced and employed by physicians of the Eclectic School of American practitioners. In the early 1920s, the Smithsonian developed three small exhibits on the so-called "alternative" schools of medicine: homeopathy, osteopathy, and eclectic medicine. In 1924, John Uri Lloyd (1849-1936) procured these specimens for the museum's eclectic medicine exhibit.
label: Description
content: The Eclectic School, which emerged in the United States in the 1830s, arose from earlier botanical medicine movements and Native American herbal traditions. Practitioners primarily used plant-based drugs that were indigenous to the United States and developed a distinct "American materia medica." Lloyd Brothers, established in 1886 by brothers John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1859-1926), and Nelson Ashley Lloyd (1851-1925), was a major supplier of quality botanical drugs for the eclectic physician.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Accession 71753 (1924); Gift of Lloyd Brothers; selected by Dr. John Uri Lloyd
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-01898
label: catalog number
content: M-01898
label: accession number
content: 071753
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Crude Drug
label: Other Terms
content: Crude Drug; Materia Medica; Drugs; Vegetable
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: sponge (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 2 1/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 11.43 cm x 5.3975 cm x 5.3975 cm