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HANGED MAN'S MEDICINAL SKULLCAP FRAMED CURIO
"Human skull. Cranium hominis. The powder, in doses of 3j, is used in epilepsy: those which
have been long buried are to be preferred; and some even limit the effect to the triangular
bone called the os triquetrum." Lémery observes, "The skull of a person who has died a violent
death forms a quicker and better remedy than that of a person who has died from lingering disease,
or who has been taken from a cemetery, because the first contains all his spirits, while in others
they have been exhausted, either by the disease or by the earth." Boyle believed that powdered
human skull, applied to the skin, had permanently cured him of bleeding from the nose." - From a
medical book that was published in London in 1861.
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This beautiful framed curio is 11 inches wide by 13 inches tall by 6 inches deep. The image
area is 7 and 1/2 inches wide by 9 and 1/2 inches tall. The placard is all hand-illustrated
using pen-and-ink on hundred-year-old paper which reads:
cranium hominis suspensi in pulvere reduce:
reducing the cranium of hanged men to powder for medicine.
A real human skull cap is centered on vintage black cloth embellished with black Victorian
trim and jet buttons. The skull cap is framed in a beautiful vintage black wooden frame
with gold ornamentation. This is signed and dated on the back and is ready to hang in your
own personal dime museum or sideshow.
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Order by #CURIO-46
PRICE: $524.95
Shipping cost to be determined regarding final destination.
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