Medicine

Prescription

92-1-206B

From: China

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 92-1-206B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chinese
Provenience China
Period 19th Century
Date Made 19th Century CE
Section Asian
Materials Paper
Inscription Language Chinese Language
Description

Paper wrapper for medicine (92-1-206A). See also 92-1-207 and 208. Printed sales leaflet for a Chinese manufacturer of medicinal peppermint oil (bohe you 薄荷油) in Guangdong. The company is called Ye Wanqian 葉萬泉 (Ye is the family name, Wanquan “10,000 springs” is the brand name). The address is given as 粵東省城太平門外打銅街 “Copper-beaters Street, outside the Taiping Gate of the Provincial Capital of Guangzhou.”

Credit Line Received from various sources, pre-1992

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