Quassia cup. Lathe-turned wooden cup with a pedestal base and cylindrical body with flared lip. Quassia cups were used to steep water in overnight, creating a bitter tonic that was said to promote appetite, assist digestion, and even reduce fever. The shrub that contains the wood that these cups were made out of originated in Suriname and was in...
Created:
1850 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.