Quassia Tonic Cup

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Title: Quassia Tonic Cup
Creator: Streeter, Edward Clark (1874-1947)
Contributor: Bernard Kosto, M.D.
Yale University. School of Medicine.
Published / Created: ca. 1860
Description: A wooden quassia tonic cup—the cup is made with the wood from the Jamaican quassia tree. These goblet shaped cups were filled with water in the evening and the bitterness of the wood flavored the water overnight. One would drink the water to recover from
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