Medicine
29-237-38
From: China | Taiwan
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 29-237-38 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chinese |
| Provenience | China | Taiwan |
| Date Made | 19th Century |
| Section | Asian |
| Description | 金石斛. Name unknown. GIven to horses and used often as a narcotic. From South Formosa (Taiwan). Value at Takow (Kaohsiung), $12 per picul. Brown stems and twigs. 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 | 3870 - Other Number | CG98-1-72.38 - Found in Collection Number |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.