Madstone
notes: label: Description
content: In the nineteenth-century, some Americans believed that a visit to a mad-stone, or application of a mad-stone, would counteract the poison inflicted by a bite from a rabid dog or poisonous snake. This stone is of that sort.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Antibody Initiative: Rabies
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0687.01
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0687.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0687
objectType: label: Object Name
content: madstone
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 3 5/8 in x 2 1/8 in; .635 cm x 9.2075 cm x 5.3975 cm