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TROCIS D'AROD
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The lower shoulder of the jar bears the inscription <i>TROCIS D'AROD.</i> It would have contained Troches Diarhodon, a lozenge made from red rose petals, spikenard, aloes, licorice, saffron, and mastic. The lozenge was used for a variety of stomach ailments and to ease fevers and congestion.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineTROCIS D'AROD. ca 1700. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
