Mandibulae Lucii Piscis, c1745-1807

Glass specie jar containing jawbone of pike. From the Burges Collection.

Text on paper contents label reads ‘Catal. mat. med. p. 116. No. 61. Mandibulae Lucii Piscis. Ph. Lond. 1632.’

This was believed to have been used to stop bleeding, cure fevers and the plague.