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TR THEBUIC
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This blown and molded glass jar has a baked enamel label marked, <i>TR THEBUIC.</i> The jar would have contained tincture of thebaica. The tincture was made by letting opium steep in two pints of alcohol. The resulting tincture was used as a sedative, a narcotic, an antitussive, or an antidiarrheal.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineTR THEBUIC. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
