- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Fruit of "Helicteres Isora", used as a charm for colic. [SM 30/06/2011]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Edward Lovett
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1933
- Date collected
- By 1933
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Seed Capsule
- Dimensions
- Width: max 25 mm, Length: max 27 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.51.203 Other numbers: R 3721/ 1937 A 665293 A 177013 lot 26
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