SAL MIRABIL GLAUB
date: label: date made
content: 17th-18th century
notes: label: Description
content: This blown and molded drug jar is marked "SAL MIRABIL GLAUB", and known as "Mirabile Glauber's Salt" or Sodium Sulfate. Described by the German chemist Johan Rudolf Glauber (1604-1670), sodium sulfate was used in processing glass. As a medicinal it served as a laxative and stypic.
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: 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: 1991.0664.0325
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 183
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0325
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Other Terms
content: Bottle; jar; Pharmaceutical Container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.3 cm x 6.5 cm x 6.8 cm; 4 1/16 in x 2 9/16 in x 2 11/16 in