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ESS CASTOR
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This blown and molded square–shaped bottle has a baked enamel label marked <i>ESS CASTOR</i> in black text. The jar would have contained essence of castoreum, a fatty material derived from a beaver gland that was used as a nerve tonic, an antiemetic (to reduce nausea and vomiting), and an emmenagogue (to induce menstruation).
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineESS CASTOR. 17th-18th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
