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Amber

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Fossil resin valued for ornament and, in some pharmacies, as a material. Baltic trade and later occult amber are local.

  • Amber is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History lists succinum (amber) among remedies: fossil resin used in compounded medicines. A Roman-era pharmacological use of the material, not Baltic ornament-trade as this sentence and not occult amber.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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