A collection of objects associated with medicine or tobacco use. Items include:

1. Civil War-era United States Medical Department-issued quinine container. Tin, with original cork and paper label reading: "Pilulæ / Quiniæ / Sulphatis. / Each containing three grains of / Sulphate of Quinia. / Prepared at the / U.S.A. Med. Purveying Depot / Astoria, L.I."

As the drug acts as a treatment and preventative against malaria, supplying Union forces in the mosquito-infested swamps of the South with quinine was critical. The responsibility of producing usable quinine was assumed in part by the U.S.A. Medical Purveying Depot of Astoria, Long Island. 

2. Mid-19th century unopened, paper-wrapped chewing tobacco. Obverse printed: "Queen of the Valley / Fine / Cut / Chewing / Tobacco," with a depiction of a finely-dressed woman inspecting a tobacco flower. Reverse printed: "This Tobacco is Manufactured from Selected Leaf, and Warranted free from [a]ll deletereous [sic] substances. / J. W. Loomis, / Suffield, / Conn." Additionally printed to sides: "J. W. Loomis" and "Suffield, Conn.", respectively.

Produced by the company of John Wells Loomis (1805-1879), an eminent tobacco baron.

3. United States Navy Medical Department 100 cubic centimeter glass bottle, ca. late 19th - early 20th century. Glass embossed to ricasso: "Medical / Department / U.S.N.". To Reverse: "100 c.c.".

[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Medical History] [Relics, Ephemera]