National Museum of American History
BENEDITTA H
ca 1700
The lower shoulder of this drug jar in inscribed <i>BENEDITTA H.</i> The jar would have contained Benedicts’s herb, or <i>Geum urbanum</i>. The herb and its roots were used as a remedy for liver disease and stomach ailments.
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