Amber: component of the early modern materia medica

[Paul Ferguson]

"Amber was an essential part of the stock-in-trade of the early modern apothecary. Employed in an amulet, as an otherwise unrefined powder, or in the form of alchemically processed chemical derivatives, contemporary accounts show that it possessed exceptionally wide-ranging potential as a medicinal simple."

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