Object Details
- Description
- This blown and molded bottle is marked LIQ CORN CERV SUCC. The jar would have contained a liquor solution of amber with cornu cervi (calcium phosphate from stag horns). The solution was used as a general tonic, sedative, antispasmodic, nervine, and antacid.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 18th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 12 cm x 7.1 cm x 7.1 cm; 4 3/4 in x 2 13/16 in x 2 13/16 in
- Object Name
- bottle
- Other Terms
- bottle; Pharmaceutical Container
