SAL3SE REPIL
SAL3SE REPIL
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- Description
- This blown-glass jar has a wide mouth and is covered with leather secured at the neck with string. The shield-shaped label is outlined in brown and is marked SAL3SE REPL in alternating red and black letters. The jar contained Saccharum Saturn, sugar of lead which was prescribed as an astringent or antidiaphoretic.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- jar
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5.5 cm x 4.7 cm; 2 3/16 in x 1 7/8 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0446
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05595
- collector/donor number
- SAP 307
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0446
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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