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Narwhal tusk or Unicorn Horn

Unknown1701

Pharmacy Museum

Pharmacy Museum
Lisbon , Portugal

Mounted with three elements for horizontal suspension.
Unicorn horns shivers were in pharmacy since the Middle Ages as a powerful antidote and a medication that offered protection against epilepsy, impotence, sterility, plague, smallpox, roundworms and many other diseases. A few meters long, the narwhal tooth was essentially used to decorate pharmacies and became the pharmacy symbol in Northern Europe.

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  • Title: Narwhal tusk or Unicorn Horn
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date Created: 1701
  • Location: France
Pharmacy Museum

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