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Calabar Beans (Ordeal Beans); Physostigma venenosum
PHARMACEUTICALS
bean
Europe: United Kingdom; Africa: Nigeria
Early-mid 20th c.
natural product; glass; paper; cardboard
overall (box): 53 mm x 130 mm x 184 mm

Materia medica specimen contained in two-part cardboard display container, covered with black paper, with glass top, and lined with cotton wool. Old paper label taped to lid. Contents include ten dried beans.


2017.15

Transferred from the former Museum and Library of Optometry, Aston University / Gift of the family of the late Anthony G. Sabell FCOptom, 2016



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