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.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles Whitebread, "The Madstone Humbug," Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association (1941): 358-60.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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.143103
label: catalog number
content: 143103
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Madstone
label: Object Name
content: charm
label: Object Name
content: madstone, halloysite
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: stone (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 5.715 cm x 4.1275 cm