Medicine

29-237-19

From: China | Jiangsu

Curatorial Section: Asian

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

銀花. Honeysuckle. A shrub, the dried flowers of which resemble tobacco in odor. Used in cases of rheumatism. From Jiangsu province. Value at Zhenjiang, $27 per picul. Small brown plant 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 3832 - Other Number | CG98-1-72.19 - Found in Collection Number

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