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botanical specimen
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact88669
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.41
- Description
- mandarin orange peel (Citrus Nobilis); used to sooth the stomach, to aid digestion, to discharge mucus
- Object History
- Collection of original raw contents of the Chinese Herbalist Shop, Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee, Victoria BC, as purchased from Rodney Pain in 1974. Orange Peel is used as a traditional seasoning in Chinese cooking and in traditional medicine. Today, orange peel essential oil is a common beauty product used around the world.
- Reference
- Keys, John D. "Chinese Herbs". Rutland: Charles E Tuttle Company, Inc., 1976.
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botanical specimen
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact88675
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.47
- Description
- English Name: Cassia bark tree Twig Chinese Pinyin Name: Guizhi (GuiZhi) Physical Description: twigs, short, light brown, varying thicknesses, with some ridging and wrinkling along their lengths; some have short pieces branching off, some show a scar where a branching piece has broken off; some are cut or broken to blunt ends, others have bark missing at end, some have protruding bark ends with no wood inside Production Regions: Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi. Functions: Promotes sweating, resolves the flesh, warms and frees the channels and vessels, assists yang in transforming qi, downbears qi. Apply to wind-cold type of common cold, abdominal cold pain, amenorrhea due to cold blood, joint impediment, phlegm and retained fluid, edema, palpitations, renal mass.
- Object History
- Collection of original raw contents of the Chinese Herbalist Shop, Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee, Victoria BC, as purchased from Rodney Pain in 1974. Cassia bark twig is also known as Chinese cinnamon and has been used in Chinese medicine for centuries. Most of the cinnamon sold in Canada’s supermarkets is Chinese cinnamon.
- Reference
- Chinese Medicinal Material Images Database, School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University. URL: http://libproject.hkbu.edu.hk/was40/detail?channelid=47953&lang=eng&searchword=pid=B00138 Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu), 2003; Taiwan Herbal Pharmacopeia, 2014.
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box
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact24133
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.628
- Description
- Box, made of paper. Small and rectanglar. Black in color with a patterned border around it. Has colorful fabric attached to lid. Contains medicine wrapped in red paper.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.", Victoria B.C.
- Classification
- Chemical T&E
- Measurements
- 1cm height x 5cm length x 2cm depth
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Pill box
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact90317
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV020.11.1
- Description
- A cardboard box of "Dr. William's Pink Pills", with pills still inside. One side of the package is in English and the other in French. The top and bottom of the box are pink, and folded with flaps. The top reads 'Wartime package adopted Jan 1943" and "GT Fulford Limited Brockville Ont. Direction Booklet Inside This End." The fronts and sides of of the rectangular package is black with black and pink text in a white oval shape. The text reads "No. 19327 Proprietary of Patent Medicine Act / Dr. William's Pink Pills / A Tonic for the Blood and Nerves / with Iron and Vitamin B1 / Contents 50 pills." The side oval has text that reads: "Directions: 2 pills 3 times a day after of with meals. See booklet inside for complete directions. Each pill contains 1/200 grain Strychnine, 35 International Units Vitamin B1, 15 milligrams assimilable iron.
- Object History
- This item likely originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.", Victoria B.C.
- Classification
- Medical & Psychological T&E - - Medical Accessories
- Colour
- Black
- White
- Pink
- Measurements
- 4 cm l x 6 cm h x 1.75 cm d
- Maker
- Dr. Williams
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- Ontario
- Site/City Made
- Brockville
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plaque
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact24506
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.1002
- Description
- Oval plaque with black background; hand with "thumb up" in blue circle in middle surrounded by red line and semicircular red banner; white rectangle at bottom. Gold-coloured Chinese characters are on black background, blue central circle, red semicircular banner, and bottom white rectangle. Back side has crumbled labels including orange rectangular label containing black Chinese characters.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store “Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.”, Victoria B.C. Based on preliminary research, the speculation is that the sign shows that WSYWK sold patent medicines from this company. The Chinese characters seem to be suggest that "this shop sells" and "the medicine is of excellent quality" as well as the company's name.
- Classification
- Chemical T&E
- Marks/Labels
- Chinese characters show company called Chan Quan Ge, which is located on Zhong Xing Jie of Gong Yi Bu.
- Measurements
- 30 cm height x 45 cm width
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plaque
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact24511
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.1006
- Description
- Red-stained wood rectangular signage plaque with hook for hanging in the middle of the top edge. Chinese characters and the numbers 1-70 are black-inked vertically from the top right corner to bottom left corner.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store “Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.”, Victoria B.C. Plaque is the legend for the arrangement of apothecary drawers (HV975.5.2) used in at Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. and currently on display in the Burnaby Village Museum exhibit. Each drawer has Chinese words on the side and sequence of drawers was arranged according to The Thousand-Character Writing (QianZiWen). The Thousand-Character Text, is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines of four characters apiece and grouped into four line rhyming stanzas to make it easy to memorize. It is sung in a way similar to children learning the Latin alphabet singing an "alphabet song." Along with the Three Character Classic and the Hundred Family Surnames, it formed the basis of literacy training in traditional China. There are some rules for allocating Chinese medicinal material into the apothecary drawers. Chinese medicinal materials are assigned into different drawers based on their scent and property in general. Usually Chinese medicinal material with similar property would be put together (in the same drawer or nearby). Processed Chinese medicinal materials are separated from minerals. The staff responsible for preparing the medicine for the patient should remember the location, content and the effect of the Chinese medicinal materials in order to have their work done efficiently.
- Classification
- Written Communication T&E
- Measurements
- 30 cm height x 45 cm width
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botanical specimen
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact88647
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.19
- Description
- English Name: Snakegourd Root Chinese Pinyin Name: Tianhuafen (TianHuaFen) Physical Description: thin longitudinal slices of dried root, white; slightly irregular rectangular shapes with horizontal rippling; surfaces are dotted in places; some pieces broken Production Regions: Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Shaanxi, Shanxi. Functions: Clears heat, drains fire, engenders fluid, stops thirst, expels pus, eliminates swelling. Apply to thirst due to heat, diabetes, jaundice, hemoptysis due to dryness of lung, swelling abscess, hemorrhoid fistula. As for apply to diabetes, often combined with medicinal material, which can nourish yin, to achieve the effect.
- Object History
- Collection of original raw contents of the Chinese Herbalist Shop, Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee, Victoria BC, as purchased from Rodney Pain in 1974.
- Reference
- Chinese Medicinal Material Images Database, School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University. URL: http://libproject.hkbu.edu.hk/was40/detail?channelid=47953&lang=eng&searchword=pid=B00104
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bottle
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact23979
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.402
- Description
- Medicinal wine bottle; transparent green glass, sealed lid wrapped in metallic foil. Around the upper portion of neck an off-white label with light teal Chinese characters. On the main body of the bottle is an orange rectangular label with printed Chinese characters. Second from right in 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
- Label contains characters that are literally translated to: a brand name; "nourish"; "hygiene"; "medicine"; "wine"; and "tincture" (medical alcohol/wine). When adjusted for English comprehension, product is "Health tincture". The tincture includes a mixture of Chinese medicinal herbs with the addition of caterpillar fungus and turtle shell to replenish energy. It has the function of replenishing qi and invigorating qi, replenishing blood, nourshing the kidney,increasing male libido, treating the lack of appetite, refreshing the mind, getting rid of wind in the body, and improving circulation. Circular sticker translates to: "The sale of all secret formulae non-pharmaceutical medicinal preparations in Canada is regulated by The proprietary or patent Medicine Act. This law legalizes the sale of such remedies only upon condition that the quantities of the potent drugs used in their manufacture are within the limitations set by an Advisory Board, and that these quantities are printed on the labels and wrappers used in connection with the medicine and, further, that no false, misleading or exaggerated claims or representations of a cure for any disease are made on the labels and wrappers, or in any other manner respecting this article."
- Measurements
- 30 cm height x 9cm width
- Maker
- ZiBao Tang
- Country Made
- China
- Province Made
- Guangdong
- Site/City Made
- Guangzhou Xiguan
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bottle
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact23994
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.417
- Description
- Medicinal wine bottle; transparent green glass, sealed lid wrapped in metallic foil. Around the upper portion of neck an off-white label with light teal Chinese characters. On the main body of the bottle is an orange rectangular label with printed Chinese characters. Third from right in 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
- Label contains characters that are literally translated to: a brand name; "nourish"; "hygiene"; "medicine"; "wine"; and "tincture" (medical alcohol/wine). When adjusted for English comprehension, product is "Health tincture". The tincture includes a mixture of Chinese medicinal herbs with the addition of caterpillar fungus and turtle shell to replenish energy. It has the function of replenishing qi and invigorating qi, replenishing blood, nourshing the kidney,increasing male libido, treating the lack of appetite, refreshing the mind, getting rid of wind in the body, and improving circulation. The sale of all secret formulae non-pharmaceutical medicinal preparations in Canada is regulated by The proprietary or patent Medicine Act. This law legalizes the sale of such remedies only upon condition that the quantities of the potent drugs used in their manufacture are within the limitations set by an Advisory Board, and that these quantities are printed on the labels and wrappers used in connection with the medicine and, further, that no false, misleading or exaggerated claims or representations of a cure for any disease are made on the labels and wrappers, or in any other manner respecting this article.
- Measurements
- 32 cm height x 9cm width
- Maker
- ZiBao Tang
- Country Made
- China
- Province Made
- Guangdong
- Site/City Made
- Guangzhou Xiguan
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bottle
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact23995
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.418
- Description
- Medicinal wine bottle; transparent green glass, sealed lid wrapped in metallic foil. Around the upper portion of neck an off-white label with light teal Chinese characters. On the main body of the bottle is an orange rectangular label with printed Chinese characters. Far left in 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
- Label contains characters that are literally translated to: a brand name; "nourish"; "hygiene"; "medicine"; "wine"; and "tincture" (medical alcohol/wine). When adjusted for English comprehension, product is "Health tincture". The tincture includes a mixture of Chinese medicinal herbs with the addition of caterpillar fungus and turtle shell to replenish energy. It has the function of replenishing qi and invigorating qi, replenishing blood, nourshing the kidney,increasing male libido, treating the lack of appetite, refreshing the mind, getting rid of wind in the body, and improving circulation. The sale of all secret formulae non-pharmaceutical medicinal preparations in Canada is regulated by The proprietary or patent Medicine Act. This law legalizes the sale of such remedies only upon condition that the quantities of the potent drugs used in their manufacture are within the limitations set by an Advisory Board, and that these quantities are printed on the labels and wrappers used in connection with the medicine and, further, that no false, misleading or exaggerated claims or representations of a cure for any disease are made on the labels and wrappers, or in any other manner respecting this article.
- Measurements
- 32 cm height x 9cm width
- Maker
- ZiBao Tang
- Country Made
- China
- Province Made
- Guangdong
- Site/City Made
- Guangzhou Xiguan
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geological specimen
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact88634
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.6
- Description
- English Name: Talc Chinese Pinyin Name: Huashi (HuaShi) Physical Description: piece of mineral, trapezoidal, brown and white with ridges, thickest at narrower end Production Regions: Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Shandong, Jiangsu, Shaanxi. Functions: Promotes urination, frees strangury, clears heat, resolves summerheat, dispels dampness, closes sores. Apply to heat strangury, stony strangury, hot and astringent pain during urination, polydipsia due to summer-dampness, diarrhea due to damp heat, externally used to eczema, heat rash.
- Object History
- Collection of original raw contents of the Chinese Herbalist Shop, Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee, Victoria BC, as purchased from Rodney Pain in 1974. Talc is a mineral often ground into a powder and used as Talcum powder, an important ingredient used in making cosmetics, body powder, and bath powder today. The smell of talc has often been used to mask other less pleasant smells in powdered medicines.
- Reference
- Chinese Medicinal Material Images Database, School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University. URL: http://libproject.hkbu.edu.hk/was40/detail?channelid=47953&lang=eng&searchword=pid=B00401 Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu), 2003; Taiwan Herbal Pharmacopeia, 2014.
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medicinal bottle
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact2615
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV971.163.6
- Description
- Empty rectangular amber glass (brown) bottle with cork stopper. Commercial paper label indicating "40 / Lyolith Tablets / (Tabella Lyolitha Stenhouse) / Gall Stone Remedy / Formula of / Dr. John Stnehouse / Each tablet contains: / Potass. Salicylate, 1 1-2 grs. / Potassium Citrate, 1-2 gr. / Sodium Glyco and / Tauro-cholate, 1 1-2 grs. / Sodium Oleate, 1 1-2 grs. / Phenophthalein, 1-3 gr. / Menthol, 1-10 gr. / LYOLITH are best taken / at bedtime and on rising, / or after each meal, one or / two as may be prescribed / by physician, followed / by a large glass of hot / water. / H.K.WAMPOLE&CO. / LIMITED / PERTH, ONTARIO." "Henry K Wampole Co" appears in red script diagonally across the label.
- Object History
- This item originates from the West End Pharmacy in New Westminster.
- Classification
- Medical & Psychological T&E
- Marks/Labels
- Commercial paper label indicating "40 / Lyolith Tablets / (Tabella Lyolitha Stenhouse) / Gall Stone Remedy / Formula of / Dr. John Stnehouse / Each tablet contains: / Potass. Salicylate, 1 1-2 grs. / Potassium Citrate, 1-2 gr. / Sodium Glyco and / Tauro-cholate, 1 1-2 grs. / Sodium Oleate, 1 1-2 grs. / Phenophthalein, 1-3 gr. / Menthol, 1-10 gr. / LYOLITH are best taken / at bedtime and on rising, / or after each meal, one or / two as may be prescribed / by physician, followed / by a large glass of hot / water. / H.K.WAMPOLE&CO. / LIMITED / PERTH, ONTARIO."
- Measurements
- 8.25 cm height x 3.5 cm width x 2.75 cm depth
- Maker
- H. K. Wampole & Company
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- Ontario
- Site/City Made
- Perth
- Names
- West End Pharmacy
- Geographic Access
- New Westminster
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medicinal bottle
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact2616
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV971.163.7
- Description
- Small, amber glass bottle, with rectangular base and cork stopper. The bottle is empty. Discoloured, rectangular, paper label is attached to the front, commerically printed, with black text.
- Object History
- This item originates from the West End Pharmacy in New Westminster.
- Classification
- Medical & Psychological T&E
- Marks/Labels
- "100 / CHOCOLATE-COATED / TABLETS / No. 480 / CORPORA LUTEA / (DESICCATED) / 2 GRAINS / Each tablet contains 2 / grains of the desiccated / material, equivalent to / about 12 grains of fresh / Corpora Luten. / Dose, 1 or 2 Tablets / three times a day. / PARJE, DAVIS & CO. / WALKERVILLE, / ONT., CANADA." printed in black down length of discoloured, white paper label. Text is enclosed by thin, black border line. Cork features small, circular green label with illegible, gold-coloured text.
- Measurements
- 3.7 cm height x 4.4 cm width x 10.5 cm length
- Maker
- Parke, Davis & Company
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- Ontario
- Site/City Made
- Walkerville
- Names
- West End Pharmacy
- Geographic Access
- New Westminster
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medicinal bottle
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact2617
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV971.163.8
- Description
- Empty brown glass bottle with paper label and cork stopper. Bottle has square base.
- Object History
- This item originates from the West End Pharmacy in New Westminster.
- Classification
- Medical & Psychological T&E
- Marks/Labels
- Label marked "THE / WOODBRIDGE / TREATMENT / OF / TYPHOID FEVER." Content info. included. Black text on white label.
- Measurements
- 12 cm height x 4 cm width x 2.5 length
- Maker
- Parke, Davis & Company
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- Ontario
- Site/City Made
- Walkerville
- Names
- West End Pharmacy
- Geographic Access
- New Westminster
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