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- Date of production 2nd half of the 18th century
- Dimensions height: 16.3 cm
- ID no. KGZ 3495
- Museum The Museum of Pharmacy at the Jagiellonian University Medical College in Kraków
- Subjects daily life, health
- Technique glass painting, gilding
- Material glass
- Object copyright The Museum of Pharmacy at the Jagiellonian University Medical College in Kraków
- Digital images copyright public domain
- Digitalisation RDW MIC, Małopolska's Virtual Museums project
- Tags health , disease , medicine , vessel , pharmacy , 3D , storage , public domain
The vessel comes from the 2nd half of the 18th century and is made of colourless glass. There is a little white lettering piece on it with a signature in two-coloured majuscule: ESS. THERIACALIS (Essentia theriacalis) syn. Tinctura theriacalis. The medicine contained, among others, theriac.
more The vessel comes from the 2nd half of the 18th century and is made of colourless glass. There is a little white lettering piece on it with a signature in two-coloured majuscule: ESS. THERIACALIS (Essentia theriacalis) syn. Tinctura theriacalis. The medicine contained, among others, theriac.
Theriac (Latin: theriaca, Greek: theriake) is one of the oldest compound medicines, which was said and written to be a universal antidote. Its name comes from the Greek word therion, denoting a poisonous animal, especially a viper, the dried and powdered flesh of which was the main component of the medicine. Apart from that, theriac also contained sea onion (Scilla maritima), liquorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) root juice, Costus arabicus bark, long pepper (Piper longum), Radix spicae indicae root, myrrh, aloes, gum arabic, turpentine, honey, wine and opium. In modern times, the number of theriac components reached 90 (according to some, including Wirtemberg Pharmacopeia, 1741).
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