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Is It Marie Ant, the House of Representatives, or the Doctor's Snail Syringe?
In the British Museum, you can find a locket once owned by Marie Antoinette. A metal bowl covered with a lid that has a hole in it was spread around the Capitol for tobacco chewing congressmen to spit into. At the University of Oxford,you can find a pig bladder attached to a goose quill. This contraption was a 16th century syringe used by the English doctor Nicholas Robinson who relied on it to collect saliva from different farm animals he thought could be used to make medicine.
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