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    Type of Object

    Pestle

    Date of Manufacture

    1840-1870

    Physical Details

    Small ceramic pestle. Pestle is bulb-shaped, wider at the base than at the top. Very simple design. No accompanying mortar.

    Dimensions (L x W x H)

    2.5 cm. x 6.5 cm. x 2 cm.

    Medical Subject

    Drug Compounding -- instrumentation

    Accession Number

    1983.25c

    Genre

    medical equipment

    Local Genre

    medical artifact

    Type

    Still Image

    Digital Format

    image/jpg

    Language

    eng

    Rights

    This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.

    Collection

    Medical Artifacts Collection

    Source

    Original object: Small Pestle, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.

    File Name

    mar00128.jpg

    Accessibility Note

    Content is digitally accessible 2010.

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