Lapides Carpionum, c1745-1807

Description

Glass jar containing specimens of Lapides Carpionum from the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. From the Burges Collection.

Text on paper labels reads ‘Catal. Mat. Med. p. 114. No. 52’ and ‘Lapides Carpionum’.

Robert James, in his New English Dispensatory, says that ‘The triangular Bones found in the Mouth called Lapides Carpionum are recommended in the Colic, Stone, and Epilepsy; and are said to extinguish Thirst in Fever’s, and refrain Haemorrhages of the Nose, if held in the Mouth.’