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ELECTVARIUM DUCIS
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This is a blue, yellow, and green tin–glazed waisted drug jar. The jar is decorated with a female mythological figure holding a cornucopia of flowers in one hand, set against a landscape. On either side of the figure are vertical bands of foliage. An escrol above the figure is marked “ELECTVARIUM DUCIS.” The jar would have contained an electuary (a medicine mixed with honey into a paste) formulated for the Duke of Savoy. An electuary was taken orally, and this preparation was used to relieve flatulence and indigestion.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineELECTVARIUM DUCIS. 1700 - 1799. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
