CORTEX QUERCUS
CORTEX QUERCUS
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- Description
- This drug jar is marked CORTEX QUERCUS. Cortex Quercus is the bark from the North American White Oak. It can be made into a astringent, tonic and used as an antiseptic.
- Pharmaceutical historian George Urdang attributes containers 1991.0664.0760 through 1991.0664.0825 to Hanau in the late 18th century based on the floral design surrounding the medallion and the initials HN on the bottom of many of the jars in the series. However, in a letter to museum curators dated August 1983, the pharmaceutical historian Wolfgang-Hagen Hein wrote that the containers without initials and those marked FH were made in Florsheim in the German state of Hesse.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- jar
- Other Terms
- jar; Pharmaceutical Container
- date made
- 1790-1810
- Date made
- 1775 - 1799
- place made
- Germany
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 16.1 cm x 10.6 cm; 6 5/16 in x 4 3/16 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0820
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 744
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0820
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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