- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ground hemispherical operculum shell. Used as a cure for cataracts. [SM 11/03/2011]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Edward Lovett
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1914
- Date collected
- 1914
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Operculum Shell, Process Ground
- Dimensions
- Width: max 19 mm, Length: max 20 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.51.617 Other numbers: R 12766/ 1936 A 132528 XX AM
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