Priapus Tauri, c1745-1807

Description

Glass specie jar containing two specimens of bull’s penile bone. From the Burges Collection.

Text on paper contents label reads ‘Catal. mat. med. p. 185. No. 129. Priapus Tauri.’

John Huxham writes that Priapus Tauri ‘and other whimsies’ were once recommended for pleurisy.