Medicine

29-237-74

From: China | Sichuan

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 29-237-74
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chinese
Provenience China | Sichuan
Date Made 19th Century
Section Asian
Description

只寔. Rind of the fruit of a thorny kind of tree. A cure for consumption, colds, asthma, etc. From Sichuan province. Value at Ningbo, $9 per picul. Tan fragments in cloudy container. 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 4019 - Other Number | CG98-1-72.77 - Found in Collection Number

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