Medicine

29-237-4

From: China | Guangdong

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 29-237-4
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chinese
Provenience China | Guangdong
Date Made 19th Century
Section Asian
Description

石蒙. A greenish micaceous mineral, believed to remove phlegm, etc. From Guangdong province. Value at Guangzhou, $11 per picul. Metallic/copper-like fragments. One of a collection of samples of Chinese medicine, each in an individual glass jar sealed with cork top.

Credit Line Gift of R. Stewart Culin, pre-1903
Other Number 3795 - Other Number | CG98-1-72.4 - Found in Collection Number

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