elementTallowElementsRendered hard animal fat for candle and soap. Not beeswax, and not oil as liquid fat.Tallow is used in Medicine.Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists animal fats and tallows among ointment and plaster bases. First-century pharmacological use of rendered fat, not beeswax as hive wax and not oil as olive oil already filed.from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CEused in · sourced · documentedsourcesDe Materia Medica · Pedanius DioscoridesDioscorides, De Materia Medica.