Sierra Sacramento Valley Museum of Medical History

Display Case B
Tools of the Pharmacist

Pharmacist's Percolator

Components for a medication would be put into this container along with menstruum (a solvent to extract compounds from tissue). The solvent would "percolate" through the plant or other material extracting the soluble portion which would then be filtered through the narrow neck. circa 1900.
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Percolator

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