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ESS PINI
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This blown and molded bottle is marked <i>ESS PINI</i>, and would have contained the Essence of Pine. Pini would have referred to a variety of different evergreen pine trees whose sap or distilled leaves would have been used as a diuretic, diaphoretic, detergent, or cathartic.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineESS PINI. 18th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
