jar
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact24208
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.703
- Description
- Clear glass jar with screw on lid. Slightly tapered towards the bottom. Orange rectangular paper label with black Chinese characters. Some light-coloured residue in the jar. Jar is second from the left in the photograph.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.", Victoria, B.C.
- Classification
- Chemical T&E
- Marks/Labels
- Orange rectangular label with black Chinese characters on front of jar. Characters literally translate to: "fall" and "hit" and "pill". Adjusted translation for English comprehension is "Bone Pill" or Dieda Wan (Mandarin pronunciation). A blackish-brown pill made from many ingredients. Used in traditional Chinese medicine to "promote blood circulation, remove stasis, induce the subsidence of swelling and relieve pain where indicated by traumatic injuries with bone fracture, ecchymosis, swelling and pain or sprain of back muscles. Honey is used as the binding agent.
- Measurements
- 17 cm height x 10 cm width