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BENEDITTA H
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The lower shoulder of this drug jar in inscribed <i>BENEDITTA H.</i> The jar would have contained Benedicts’s herb, or <i>Geum urbanum</i>. The herb and its roots were used as a remedy for liver disease and stomach ailments.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineBENEDITTA H. ca 1700. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
