"Narwhal tooth powder was thought to have medical powers until the end of the 18th century. A 17th-century English leaflet promised the healing of “Scurvy, Old Ulcers, Dropsy, Running Gout, Consumptions, Distillations, Coughs, Palpitation of the Heart, Fainting Fits, Convulsions, King's Evil, Rickets in Children, Melancholly or Sadness, The Green Sickness, Obstructions”."
Vanessa Sigalas, "The Whole (New) World in a Cup", note 43 p. 18.
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/kunsttexte/article/view/88527
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