Surgeon to four kings of France, who learned his craft on the battlefield. A sceptic of costly remedies, he wrote against mummy and the unicorn’s horn, and tested a bezoar stone on a condemned cook, who died.

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  1. Bezoar stoneA concretion formed in the stomach of goats and other animals.
  2. Glass powder, plate: Venetian cristallo glass, 16th–17th century
    Glass powderPowdered glass.
  3. MummyPowdered embalmed human remains, sold by the apothecaries.
  4. Unicorn’s hornAlmost always the tusk of the narwhal, Monodon monoceros.

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