M0005306: Eleven English dental charms and amulets

Date:
November 1937
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WT/D/1/20/1/43/37
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M0005306: Eleven English dental charms and amulets. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced November 2021: Eleven Dental charms and amulets in England

Description

Photograph of eleven English dental charms and amulets: bag containing a crust carried by an old man for toothache; two moles feet carried in pocket for toothache, Norfolk; stone chasm for toothache, Ottery St. Mary, South Devon; teeth carried in a case for toothache, South Devon; stone used as a cure for toothache, Exmouth, Devon; work for teething from Gloucestershire and also from Warwickshire; bag containing pig's teeth, tied round the neck of an infant to facilitate teething, South London; calves' feet, worn to facilitate teething, London; orris root, used to assist teething East London and Norfolk; bag used as a charm for teething, S. Devon; stone used for teething, South Devon. The items were previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

Publication/Creation

November 1937

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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