Quassia Tonic Cup - Yale University Library

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Description

Title: Quassia Tonic Cup
Creator: Streeter, Edward Clark (1874-1947)
Contributor: Bernard Kosto, M.D.
Yale University. School of Medicine.
Published / Created: ca. 1860
Description: A wooden quassia tonic cup—the cup is made with the wood from the Jamaican quassia tree. These goblet shaped cups were filled with water in the evening and the bitterness of the wood flavored the water overnight. One would drink the water to recover from
Language: No linguistic content; Not applicable

Collection Information

Repository: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Collection Title: Medical Instrument Collection

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: still image
Genre: Artifacts
Material: wood
Subject (Name): Bernard Kosto, M.D.
Yale University. School of Medicine.
Subject (Topic): Folk Medicine

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Identifiers

Object ID (OID): 17321922

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