- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Medicine. Paper package containing poultice of boiled seeds. Used to cure hard swellings [SB [OPS Move] 09/03/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Winifred Susan Blackman
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date
- Date collected
- 1928
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Paper Plant, Material Plant Seed, Material Animal Hair, Material Plant Fibre
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 10 mm, Width: max 45 mm, Length: max 80 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.54.742 Other numbers: A 138587 20
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