TINCT ALOES
TINCT ALOES
- Description
- This blown and molded square-shaped apothecary jar has a baked enamel label marked TINCT ALOES. Today aloe is mostly known for the soothing juice extracted from its leaves when applied to burns. Many people keep an aloe plant in their kitchen for such use. It has also been used for insomnia and as a purgative for stomach ailments. (Freeman, p. 19, Drey, p. 184, Estes pgs. 6–7)
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 18th century
- Physical Description
- paint (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13.1 cm x 7 cm x 6.8 cm; 5 3/16 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 11/16 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0248
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05396
- collector/donor number
- SAP 105
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0248
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Art
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
