OL RUTAE
date: label: date made
content: 17th-18th century
notes: label: Description
content: This blown and molded glass bottle with stopper has a baked enamel label marked, <i>OL RUTAE.</i> Oil of Rutae is made from the herb <i>Ruta graveolens</i> more commonly known as Rue. The leaves of the herb are distilled in alcohol and used as a stimulant, an antispasmodic, for convulsions and hysteria, and as an abortifacient, to induce a miscarriage.
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: 1991.0664.0466
label: catalog number
content: M-05615
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 327
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0466
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.7 cm x 3.4 cm x 3.4 cm; 3 13/16 in x 1 11/32 in x 1 11/32 in