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Coil of dried eel skin, United Kingdom, 1880-1930
The growing influence of biomedicine in the 1800s did not necessarily replace established forms of treatment based on belief and superstition. What could be referred to as folk medicine – customs that often went back generations – continued to be practised. For example, eel skins wrapped around the finger to ward off cramp were a Scottish medical tradition. The eel had first to be killed, skinned …
Creator
- Science Museum, London
Subject
- rheumatism
- cramp
- garter
- eel skin
- amulet
- Garter
Creator
- Science Museum, London
Subject
- rheumatism
- cramp
- garter
- eel skin
- amulet
- Garter
Providing institution
Aggregator
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Rights
- Credit: Science Museum, London
Source
- L0058989
Identifier
- L0058989
- Science Museum A665585
- cnf9vuv8
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-06-09T12:26:48.842Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-06-09T12:26:48.842Z