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Animal Ingredients (Burges Collection of Materia Medica, late 1700s)

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Description

The drugs collected by the apothecary John Burges (1745-1807) include many animal ingredients. This group includes (from left to right): bees, sea skinks, red coral, a viper, seahorses, toads, and European scorpions.