National Museum of American History
TR THEBUIC
Unknown artist
This blown and molded glass jar has a baked enamel label marked, <i>TR THEBUIC.</i> The jar would have contained tincture of thebaica. The tincture was made by letting opium steep in two pints of alcohol. The resulting tincture was used as a sedative, a narcotic, an antitussive, or an antidiarrheal.
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