M0014430: St. Fillan's bronze bell

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Reproduction of a photograph of St. Fillan's bronze bell, placed on the head for the cure of insanity. From a photograph of the orginal in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. The print was received by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 6 January 1956.

M0014430: St. Fillan's bronze bell

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