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Description: | Glass bottle. Empty bottle originally labelled ‘Spirit Rect’. Spiritus Rectus. Most likely alcohol or an alcoholic solution used to dissolve other materia medica to make tinctures. I.e. in A dictionary of practical medicine, Volume 2, ‘Appendix of Formulae – Tinctura’, 1833, p. XXIV, we find a recipe for Spiritus Therebinthinatusm used in jaundice, requiring, amongst others, Spirit. Vini Rect. - spirit of wine (something similar is still used in another form in medicine today, namely rectified ethyl alcohol). | Publisher: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/page/7d7ded6fb50d6031e2884961a200be58.html | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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