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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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These aromatics are named as materials that preserve clothing from moths, with civet then preferred above them. Ambra is rendered ambergris in this context, and muscus as musk rather than ordinary moss. Several of the same fragrant materials earlier appear among things allegedly harmed by menstruation. The change of context matters: one passage concerns the source’s contamination prejudice, the other a purported household protective use.
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- Book 3 · Preservation · Passage 12Latin“mastix, camphora ambra, muscus”