The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
For constipation, biliousness, sick stomach, indigestion, dyspepsia, loss of appetite, liver trouble, bilious headache, impure blood, blood poverty, skin eruptions, sick headache, nausea, coated tongue, dizziness, debility and pains in the back and loins
This aqua–colored blown glass bloodletting cup has a wide base and a rolled lip. Cups for bloodletting were also made of tin and deer or livestock antlers. Suction is created by heating the cup. The warm cup is applied to the skin and the suction created brings the blood to the surface of the skin.
This free blown bottle has rounded shoulders, a circular-shaped glass stopper, and dates from the eighteenth century. The baked enamel label is typical of the Rococo style popular at the time. The label is a white oval-shaped cartouche and is outlined with blue stylized acanthus leaves and pink ribbons. The center of the cartouche is marked in black, OL CINAM, Oil of Cinnamon. It is one of a group of six small containers used for oil extracts.
Blown and molded glass mortar and pestle. The mushroom-shaped handles were blown and applied at the waist. The base of the mortar has three graduated disks of glass, the widest disk is at the bottom. The mouth of the mortar is flared and has four horizontal ribs.
This blown and molded square-shaped glass jar has a narrow neck and flared lip. It has a baked white enamel label framed in blue and red surrounded by a gold and brown escutcheon with a crown at the top. The label is marked TERR VITRIOL DULC in black text, with the first initial of each word painted red. The bottle would have held Terra Vitrioli Dulcis an iron sulfate solution which was generally used as an astringent.
Woodcut portrait of Andreas Planer (1546-1606), professor of philosophy and medicine at the university in Tübingen. Planer was also known as Athesinus. The inscription at bottom reads “IFL 1599.”
The Prussian government established several quarantine stations in the early 1830s, in an effort to limit the spread of cholera. This print depicts one of those stations.
The bottom part of the print, missing in this example, identifies the scene as “La Pharmacie Rustique” in the Swiss Alps. The plump proprietor, Michael Schüppach, is shown examining a vial of urine, presumably that of the wealthy woman and well-dressed woman. This image was drawn by Gottfried Locher in 1774 and printed by Barthelemi Hubner in 1775.
This blown and molded square bottle has rounded shoulders and a narrow flared opening with a "lollipop" stopper. The baked enamel label is an oval white shield outlined with a red line and a wreath of blue leaves and yellow and red flowers. It is marked SP/NTTR/CRUD.
This rounded crucible has a squat body with tripod legs and a wrought iron bale handle looped through triangular shaped handles. The entire body is incised with images of animals and two saints. An oval medallion set into the body is marked, "1530.”
This bottle marked ACET BEZOARD would have contained Acetum Bezoardicum, or Bezoar Vinegar. Bezoars were small “stones” found in the stomachs of goats and similar species. The animal would eat something that it could not digest, and wood, straw, hair, grass, herbs, and the like would get caught on the object, creating a bezoar. Bezoar Vinegar was used as a medication for a variety of ailments including fevers, plagues, and poisonings. Bezoars were eventually substituted for various salts and herbs in a vinegar solution.
This tin glazed conical drug jar is decorated with two curved blue vines to form an oval cartouche. The interior of the cartouche is marked, “Vng. Alaba strin.” The jar would have contained Unguentum Alabastrinum, an ointment made from powdered alabaster, chamomile, rose petals, and wax that was used as an emollient.
This square-shaped blown and molded glass apothecary jar has a baked enamel baroque-style blue and yellow cartouche on its front. The jar is marked with a red alchemical symbol for salt (sal) and the letters FLOR AMON S. The jar would have contained ammonia salts.
This blown and molded square-shaped bottle has a narrow neck for pouring liquids. The oval shaped white enamel shield is framed with red and yellow "c" scrolls. Atop the shield is a yellow sun, with its eyes, brows, nose, and mouth in black. Orange and yellow rays flare out from the sun’s surface. The mark in the center of the shield is BUTYR ANTIM which is also known as Butyrum Antimonii or Butter of Antimony.
This glass jar has a baked enamel label marked TINCT MART POMAT. The European Apothecary Collection contains dozens of drug jars with this same embellishment. The generic blue and yellow decoration with its stylized crown above the cartouche is similar to glass drug jars in the collection of the Deutsche Apotheken Museum in Heidelberg, Germany.