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TRYPHERA MAGNA
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This albarello drug jar has rounded shoulders and a short foot with a blue scroll design. The jar is decorated with a blue, green and yellow floral motif with cherubic infants (putti) perched on vines. A gold crown sits over the heads of a double headed eagle, which holds an escutcheon inside a gold shield. The jar is marked <i>TRYPHERA MAGNA</i> a compound that includes opium, cinnamon, and henbane leaves for relief of gastric pain and insomnia.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineTRYPHERA MAGNA. 18th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
