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Alkenaet Root, c1949

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Description

Brown paper envelope containing alkanet root BPC 1949, which is specimen number 5 from a British Drug Houses materia medica specimen kit.

Alkanet root is listed in the British Pharmaceutical Codex of 1949 as Alkanna (Latin name Anchusa). It was used for producing a red dye.