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Duffin, Christopher, "$Lacrimae cervi&: Stag's tears in materia medica", Pharmaceutical Historian, 51/3 (2021), 76-87.

Resum: The history of 'Stag's tears' as an item of materia medica is traced here for the first time. The background to their use relied heavily on the legendary belief that a natural enmity existed between deer and snakes; stags fed on snakes and, as a consequence, shed tears which hardened into stone. Presented as a type of bezoar in medieval Arabic literature, stag's tears were also known as Kenne. Seen as possessing drying, strengthening, astringent , alexipharmic and diaphoretic qualities, they were employed medicinally mainly in the treatment of poisoning and in cases of fever.
Matèries: Medicina - Farmacologia
Història natural - Animals
URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354238420_ ...