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BALS VITAE HOFFM
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This blown and molded bottle has a baked enamel which reads <i>BALS VITAE HOFFM</i>. The bottle would have contained Hoffman’s Balsam of Life, a tincture from the balsam of Peru (myroxylon pereirae) and other aromatics synthesized by the German physician Friedrich Hoffman during the 18th century. The Balsam of Life would have been used as a liniment for treating wounds.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineBALS VITAE HOFFM. 18th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
