TINCT KALINA
- Description
- This blown and molded bottle is marked TINCT KALINA. The bottle would have contained tincture of kalina, a solution of powdered potassium carbonate in alcohol. The tincture of kalina was prescribed as a blood thinner, diaphoretic, antacid, diuretic, or laxative.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 18th century
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13 cm x 7.2 cm x 7.2 cm; 5 1/8 in x 2 13/16 in x 2 13/16 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0308
- catalog number
- M-05457
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 166
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0308
- 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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