Madstone
notes: label: Description
content: A madstone is a stone usually found in the intestines of animals, and that is thought to have the ability to absorb the poison from rabid dogs or poisonous snakes. This example was received from the Bureau of Animal Industry, ca. 1906.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles Whitebread, "The Madstone Humbug," Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association (1941): 358-60.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.143201
label: catalog number
content: 143492
label: catalog number
content: 143492?
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Madstone, Hairball
label: Object Name
content: trichobezoar
label: Object Name
content: bezoar
label: Object Name
content: madstone, hairball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: hair (overall material)