Os e Corde Cervi, c1745-1807

Description

Glass specie jar containing specimens of bone from the heart of a stag. From the Burges Collection.

Text on paper contents label reads ‘Catal. mat. med. p. 129. No. 94. Os e corde Cervi.’

Pomet, in his Compleat History of Druggs, says that this bone ‘is said to be cordial, and is brought into the Confection of Hyacinth. It revives the Spirits, expels Melancholy, and helps the Palpitation of the Heart. This bone is suppos’d to be the Effect of a Polypus.’