Object Details
- Description
- This blown and molded jar is decorated with a Baroque-style blue and yellow cartouche. It is marked "RESIN TURBETH". Turbeth also spelled turpeth, is the bark of roots with purgative properties. In A New Medical Dictionary Dr. Robert Hooper describes Turbeth to be "liable to much irregularity of action".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 17th-18th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11.3 cm x 7.2 cm x 7.2 cm; 4 7/16 in x 2 13/16 in x 2 13/16 in
- Object Name
- jar
- Other Terms
- jar; Pharmaceutical Container
