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Apothecary Bottle, ELIX PECTOR
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This blown glass drug container has a round, flat-shaped stopper and an applied foot. A blue, red and yellow floral wreath is connected at the top with a pink ribbon and at the bottom with a blue ribbon. The Roman numeral XI is etched into the glass just above the shoulder. The opaque white color of the glass comes from the addition of tin oxide and was meant to imitate porcelain. The inside of the wreath is marked, <i>ELIX: PECTOR:</i>. It wasa liquid remedy for ailments of the chest and lungs.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineApothecary Bottle, ELIX PECTOR. 18th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
