Blue crotcheted wool bag containing tooth-shaped stone

Made:: 1851-1900

Blue crotcheted wool bag containing tooth-shaped stone

Blue crotcheted wool bag containing tooth-shaped stone
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Blue crotcheted wool bag containing tooth-shaped stone, probably to help teething or cure toothache, English(?), 1851-1900

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A666086

Materials:: wool and stone

Measurements:: stone: height 20 mm
stone: diameter 22 mm
bag: length 90 mm
bag: width 84 mm

type:: stones

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