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Coral

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Hard growth from sea polyps, used as ornament and amulet material. Mediterranean and other coral trades are local.

  • Coral is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists coral among drugs: an astringent ware prepared as remedies. First-century pharmacological use of the growth, not a generic amulet and not a dye.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

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