File:Copy of a European sacrament dispenser (1500s) Wellcome L0058226.jpg

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Copy of a European sacrament dispenser (1500s)
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Copy of a European sacrament dispenser (1500s)
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This rather odd instrument was used to give out Holy Communion while keeping those with plague literally at arm’s length. It is just over a metre long. One prong at the end of the fork has a slit to take the communion wafer, and the other prong has five small holes from which wine can be drunk.

This copy was presented to the Wellcome Museum for the History of Medicine, now known as the Wellcome Trust, by the director of the Institut Pasteur in Paris in 1939.

maker: Unknown maker

Place made: Europe

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Keywords: Plague; sacrament dispenser
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  • Library reference: Science Museum A629402
  • Photo number: L0058226
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