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Clear glass specimen jar for turmeric root

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1880-1899

Specimen jar containing arum root

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1830-1930

Specimen jar containing box roots

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1830-1930

Glass drug jar, containing Solomon's seal root

Medical Glass-ware

Glass drug jar

Medical Glass-ware

Glass drug jar, cylindrical, with parchment cover,

Medical Glass-ware

1601-1800

Jar of aconite roots, unknown provenance, dated 1845

Specimen jar containing aconite roots

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1845

5 pieces of ginseng root, showing 2 different spec

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Glass drug jar, cylindrical, with parchment cover,

Medical Glass-ware

1601-1800

Glass specimen bottle, containing root of krameria

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1901-1937

Piece of dried up root, said to be part of medicin

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Container with Asparagus stems used in Gold Coast

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1930

Glass jar, contains tame poison roots from North America

Specimen jar containing tame poison roots

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1870-1930

Root, unidentified specimen, boiled in water, for

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1905

2 small hand-shaped orchis roots, in glass and car

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Five pieces of root, unidentified, for diarrhoea,

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1905

Piece of orvis root on twisted cord used for teeth

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1913

Piece of root unidentified, to cure dysentery, Kaf

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1905

Glass drug jar, opaque white, inscribed "Rad:Rhei"

Medical Glass-ware

1701-1800

Clear glass specimen jar with lid, containing oseille raccine root from Europe, in English jar, 1880-1930

Specimen jar containing oseille raccine root

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1880-1930

Clear glass specimen jar with glass stopper, full of dried pieces of horseradish root, from Great Britain, 1880-1920

Clear glass specimen jar containing horseradish root

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1880-1920

Glass jar for iron compound, containing pomegrantate root

Medical Glass-ware

Two pieces of root unidentified, for chest trouble

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1905

2 roots, regarded as magical, part of medicine man

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1930

Glass specimen jar, glass stoppered, containing armoise roots, French

Specimen jar containing armoise roots

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1870-1930

Piece of hard root for abdominal pains, Kaffirs, S

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Glass jar, containing flase (?) sarsaparilla rhizomes from Europe, jar English, 1840-1930

Specimen jar containing flase sarsaparilla rhizomes

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1840-1930

Jar of aconite rhizomes, unknown provenance, dated 1845

Jar of aconite rhizomes

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1845

Glass drug jar, cylindrical, with parchment cover,

Medical Glass-ware

1601-1800

Glass drug jar, cylindrical, with parchment cover,

Medical Glass-ware

1601-1800

Piece of root said to have the power of preventing

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1890-1905

Glass jar, contains sliced canne d'inde root, French

Specimen jar containing canne d'inde root

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1830-1930

Acanite seeds

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Specimen bottle of musel surkh roots, from India

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1940

Jalep root carved like a bird on a nest, provenance unknown, 1800-1900

Jalep root carved like a bird on a nest, provenanc

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1800-1900

Glass specimen jar, containing padam char root, used for ringworm, from Gorakhpur, India, jar English, 1870-1930

Glass specimen jar, containing padam char root, us

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1870-1930

Specimen bottle of Jasminium mauretanium root, Oshinham lende, Angola, 1880-1940

Specimen bottle of Jasminium mauretanium root, Osh

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1880-1940

Container of root, headwort, Malaya, 1901-1937

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1937

Specimen jar of Onosma echioides root, Ratanjot, India, 1880-1910

Specimen jar of Onosma echioides root, Ratanjot, I

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1880-1910

Specimen bottle containing akara-karabha roots from India

Specimen bottle containing akara-karabha roots fro

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1940

Root (?) of unidentified plant, no provenance details, 1850 to 1930

Root (?) of unidentified plant, no provenance deta

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1850-1930

Glass container, for marsh mallow root, with content

Glass container, for marsh mallow root, with conte

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1890-1940

Piece of jalap(?) root carved in form of octopus or squid, no provenance details, 1851-1916

Piece of jalap(?) root carved in form of octopus o

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1851-1916

Unidentified root used to make liniment for relief of pain and stiff neck, no provenance details, 1871 to 1938

Unidentified root used to make liniment for relief

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1871-1938

Lily root used by North american Indian, from North America, 1851 to 1937

Lily root used by North american Indian, from Nort

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1851-1937

Glass, circular container (?) mounted on glass, contains various pieces of cuckoo pint root, by Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) peoples of North America

Glass, circular container (?) mounted on glass, co

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1930

Pieces of unidentified root(?), laelled 176, now in bag, no provenance details, 1851-1940

Pieces of unidentified root(?), laelled 176, now i

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1851-1940

Lumps of brown powdery resin(?) or root(?), no provenance details, 1801-1930

Lumps of brown powdery resin(?) or root(?), no pro

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1801-1930

Glass specimen dish for birthwort root

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1920-1940

Several small pieces of yellowish root, vernacular mulya yonyi, used by Ankole tribe, Uganda, 1915-1919

Several small pieces of yellowish root, vernacular

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1915-1919