specimen jar; controlled drug; cannabis

Made:
1890-1940

A glass specimen jar containing a thin layer of bhang. A label attached says that it originates from Zanzibar, East Africa. Bhang is a form of cannabis which consists of specially dried leaves and flowering shoots of both male and female plants, and uncultivated. Cannabis was formarly employed in mania and nervous disorders as a cerebral sedative or narcotic but is now rarely used as a theraputic agent (Martindale 1967. p 276). With the specimen is a small painted piece of wood, possibly as a stand. (See note)

Details

Category:
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A669113
Materials:
glass, clear
type:
specimen jar and cannabis
credit:
Wellcome Trust