Small cone shaped menthol stone contained in boxwood elongated acorn-shaped case with screw off top

Made:: 1925-1929 in Paris

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Small cone shaped menthol stone contained in boxwood elongated
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Small cone shaped menthol stone contained in boxwood elongated
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Small cone shaped menthol stone contained in boxwood elongated acorn-shaped case with screw off top, transfer of St. Francis of Sales on body, by P. Lapaquellerie, 50 Bd. du Montparnasse, Paris, France, 1925-1929. for relief of neuralgia and migraine

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A666034

Materials:: salve and box, wood

Measurements:: length 73 mm
diameter 26 mm

type:: therapeutic amulet

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Small cone shaped menthol stone contained in boxwood elongated acorn-shaped case with screw off top

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