EL ACID H
- Description
- This blown and molded square–shaped bottle has a baked enamel white oval cartouche that is outlined with blue vines, red and yellow flowers, and a three-pointed crown. The cartouche is marked EL ACID H. The jar would have contained Electuarium Acidum, or Acid Electuary. Electuaries were pastes often made into lozenges. This lozenge, made with sorrel and cream of tartar, was used to treat jaundice, a yellow tinge of the skin caused by excess bilirubin in the blood.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 17th-18th century
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 19 cm x 7.2 cm x 7.2 cm; 7 15/32 in x 2 27/32 in x 2 27/32 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0387
- catalog number
- M-05536
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 248
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0387.01
- 1991.0664.0387.02
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Art
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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