Dentalium, c1745-1807

Description

Glass specie jar containing specimens of tooth shell (Dentalium sp). From the Burges Collection.

Text on paper contents label reads ‘Catal. mat. med. p. 113. No. 31. Dentalium.’

Pomet, in his Compleat History of Druggs, says that the dog-like tooth-shell ‘is an Alcali, to be us’d as other testaceous Powders’.