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Alchemy and Chemical Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru
Published in Ambix, 2020
Linda A. Newson
The minerals that were most commonly utilised were alumbre (aluminium potassium sulphate), cardenillo (verdigris or basic copper acetate), albayalde (lead carbonate or white lead) and almártaga (lead oxide – litargirio). The main ointments containing a mineral were white ointment (blanco) made with lead carbonate (albayalde), egipciaco prepared from an oximel of copper, honey, sharp vinegar, and cardenillo137 and the more complex Condesa ointment composed of oil and berries of myrtle, yellow wax, galls, cypress nuts, pomegranate rind, seeds of senna and plantain, mastic and alumbre.138