Medicine
29-237-45
From: China | Anhui
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 29-237-45 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chinese |
| Provenience | China | Anhui |
| Date Made | 19th Century |
| Section | Asian |
| Description | 解石斛. Dendrobium Ceraia, a sort of orchis, which grows on stone. A tonic and aperient. From Anhui province. Value at Zhenjiang, $68 per picul. Brown stems. 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 | 3917 - Other Number | CG98-1-72.46 - Found in Collection Number |
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