09-16-2023, 06:47 PM
I'm sure we'd all like a closer look at the Teniers stuffed whatever-it-is.
This interesting blog, though not specifically alchemical, has a post on the domestic life of alchemists, and says: "crocodilians were commonly hung in the shops of apothecaries and other early modern drug-makers. They represented the natural wonders of the tropics, or 'Indies,' from which many such drugs hailed."
https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2011/01/
This interesting blog, though not specifically alchemical, has a post on the domestic life of alchemists, and says: "crocodilians were commonly hung in the shops of apothecaries and other early modern drug-makers. They represented the natural wonders of the tropics, or 'Indies,' from which many such drugs hailed."
https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2011/01/