SEMEN ANETHI

1790-1810

"SEMEN ANETHI" also known as Dill seeds has for centuries been used as a culinary ingredient. Dill is also used medicinally for jaundice, headache and lack of appetite. George Urdang author of the <i>The Squibb Ancient Catalogue</i> attributes the containers 1991.0664.0760 through 1991.0664.0825 to Hanau in the late 18th century based on the floral design surrounding the medallion and the initials "HN" on the bottom of many of the jars in the series. However, in a letter to museum curators dated August 1983, the pharmaceutical historian Wolfgang-Hagen Hein wrote that the containers without initials and those marked "FH" were made in Florsheim in the German state of Hesse twenty-three miles southwest of Hanau.