Medicine
29-237-1
From: China | Sichuan
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 29-237-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chinese |
| Provenience | China | Sichuan |
| Date Made | 19th Century |
| Section | Asian |
| Description | 班毛虫. Mylabris cichorii (blister beetle). Cantharides. Used for blistering purposes, and in hydrophobia. From Sichuan province. Value at Hankou, $13 per picul. Gray powder. One of a collection of samples of Chinese medicine, each in an individual glass jar sealed with cork top. |
| Credit Line | Gift of R. Stewart Culin, pre-1903 |
| Other Number | 3791 - Other Number | CG98-1-72.1 - Found in Collection Number |
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