Object Details
- Description
- The label applied in the cold paint technique is marked in black and red CASTOR Eum. The jar is blown green glass and is covered with paper secured with string. The late historian J. Worth Estes, former professor of pharmacology at Boston University describes Castoreum as a fatty material from the glands lying between the anus and external glands of the Russian beaver. It was used as a nerve tonic, an antiemetic, and an emmenagogue to hasten menstruation. Today Castoreum is still used in perfumes. The jar contains two folded paper packets.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 18th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0442
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05591
- collector/donor number
- SAP 303
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0442
- Object Name
- jar
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6.1 cm x 5.6 cm; 2 13/32 in x 2 7/32 in
- Related Publication
- Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
- Estes, J. Worth. Dictionary of Protopharmacology: Therapeutic Practices, 1700-1850
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_993791
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-a6f4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
