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Mercury pill jar

Mercury pill jar from mid-1700s.

This jar once held mercury pills in the mid-1700s. The pills were used to treat a variety of illnesses. We now know that the pills probably slowly poisoned the patients instead of helping their initial aliments.

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Rights: Wellcome Images, CC BY 4.0
Published: 15 November 2019Size: 1.45 MB
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