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Goff A 944
The woodcuts of the Arbolayre [ besancon : Peter Metlinger,
about 1487) are identical - those found in Johann
Gruninger's Strassburg ed. of the Gart der gesundheit ( C.1486),
and these identical blocks were used again by Michael
Furter of Basel in his ed. of the same book (c. 1490)
- In the 15th C. , herbals were held to be medical
works rather than botanical treatises & were widely
used by the physicians.
- The ancient Egyptians had prized minerals & metallic
substances for their curative qualities , & it was the custom
to administer them in powdered form.
- Gold & silver were taken in solution as medicine , the latter
was a remedy for heart tremors.
- Lapis lazuli removed meloncholy & alleviated pain in
the kid neys.
- Lodestone - a magnetic rock referred to as Lapis magnetis
- the Hortus (1491) observes that it may be used as a marital
compass as well as navigational one.

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