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CORAL ALB..
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This blown and molded square-shaped glass drug jar has a round wooden lid, and the it is decorated with a white cartouche framed by stylized blue leaves and red and yellow flowers. The baked enamel label is marked <i>CORA ALB</i>. Coral was used for centuries for a variety of ills including the reduction of fever, the prevention of bleeding in pregnant women, gastric pain, and to protect infants from convulsions.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineCORAL ALB... 18th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
