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Type of Object
Pestle
Date of Manufacture
1700-1799
Physical Details
Long, ornamented brass pestle with separated contact areas for hand and for compounded material. The distal end of the implement is a heavy bell with a slightly flattened base, which is flared outward from the main shaft of the pestle. A flared block separates the grinding from the handling ends of the implement, and the proximal end has four decarative spherical shapes stacked one on top of the other.
Dimensions
24 cm. x 5 cm. x 5 cm.
Medical Subject
Drug Compounding -- instrumentation
Accession Number
2004.8.21b
Genre
medical equipment
Local Genre
medical artifact
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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Rights
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Collection
Medical Artifacts Collection
Source
Original object: Brass Pestle, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
File Name
mar00082.jpg