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Bezoar

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A named concretion from an animal gut, kept as an alexipharmic in Islamic and later European pharmacy. Not toadstone, and not generic stone.

  • Bezoar is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats bezoar and animal-stone wonders among alexipharmic remedies. A Roman-era pharmacological use of bezoar, not a modern occult dump and not carbuncle as the glowing gem.

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

    used in · sourced · documented

  • Bezoar is historically related to Water.

    In Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, Bezoar and Water are named as companions in the same handbook speech.

    from Arnold James Cooley · Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, 6th ed. (PD; Gutenberg #39733 / #41957)

    historically related to · sourced · documented

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