GOLD-BRIDGED TEETH IN 1500 B.C.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 168, 16 July 1921, Page 21

GOLD-BRIDGED TEETH IN 1500 B.C.

Drugs aud toilette preparations over i .i,OOO years old have beeu added to the ! Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in I London, says the "Daily Chronicle." Some lof these drugs came from a grave inado I 1500 years H.C In startling contrast a new section *howa thu straito to which the Germans were reduced in the late war. There are paper bandages, sur- ! gi'Oiis , cases niado from canvas, e!c. j One of the moat remarkable exhibits i i.~ Iho case, of "shrunken" head*-. These ! were prepared by natives in Kouador, ■ and by a process undiscovered have been reduced perfectly to about, the size of a small orange. The lips are sewn across so that the "spirit" of the dead should not escape and do harm to the owner. The Egyptian section contains articles with which ladiee adorned themselves long before the Christian era. Persons who think they are up-to-date jin having gold bridge work on their false J teeth will be surprised to know that i there is a line example of gold bridged , teeth once worn by an Ktruscan, who got I thesn from his dentist about :>OOO veare I "go-