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Toadstone

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A named folk-jewel said to be taken from a toad’s head, later identified with fossil fish-teeth, worn against poison. Not bezoar, and not generic stone.

Also known as Bufonite

  • Toadstone is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats batrachites and toad-stone neighbors among wonder-stones entered in alexipharmic speech. A Roman-era pharmacological use of toadstone, not bezoar as the animal calculus already walked and not carbuncle as the glowing gem.

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

    used in · sourced · historically uncertain

Roman religion

  • Toadstone appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History seats toadstone among folk mineral jewels of encyclopedia speech beyond pharmacy alone. A named toadstone craft/natural-history seat, not toadstone medicine already walked and not bezoar as the gut-concretion lemma refused here for later Islamic framing.

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

    appears in · sourced · documented

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