Nostradamus Michel de Nostredame (December 1503 – July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book '' Les Prophéties'' (published in 1555), a collection ...

's ''Traité des fardemens et confitures'', variously entitled ''Moult utile opuscule...'' and ''Le vrai et parfaict embellissement de la face...'', was first published in 1555, even though it contained a ''Proem'', or prologue, dated 1552. Clearly the work of an

apothecary ''Apothecary'' () is a mostly archaic term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses '' materia medica'' (medicine) to physicians, surgeons, and patients. The modern chemist (British English) or pharmacist (British and North Amer ...

, it contained recipes for preparing

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s, the latter based largely on sugar, which was controlled at the time by the apothecaries' guilds.See history of suga
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Among the topics covered (which include removing spots from the face ''with mercury'') were: A. THE COSMETICS MANUAL * Chapter VI: ''To make a perfect

nutmeg Nutmeg is the seed or ground spice of several species of the genus ''Myristica''. ''Myristica fragrans'' (fragrant nutmeg or true nutmeg) is a dark-leaved evergreen tree cultivated for two spices derived from its fruit: nutmeg, from its seed, an ...

oil'' * Chapter VIII he one giving Nostradamus’s famous plague remedy ''To make the basis of a perfectly good and excellent aromatic powder'' * Chapter X: ''To make a sweet smelling, long lasting paste'' * Chapter XI: ''Another method for making aromatic balls'' * Chapter XIII: ''Powder for cleaning and whitening the teeth'' * Chapter XIIII: ''Another more excellent method for cleaning the teeth, even rotten ones'' y filing them down* Chapter XV: ''Perfumed water for impregnating the shapes or forms mentioned above'' * Chapter XVIII (1556): ''To truly make the lovers’ sexual potion which the ancients used for love-making'' * Chapter XXIIII: ''How to make the hair golden blond'' * Chapter XXVI ften_erroneously_described_as_for_an_aphrodisiac:_''A_supreme_and_very_useful_composition_for_the_health_of_the_human_body'' *_Chapter_XXVII:_''There_follows_the_way_in_which_one_should_use_the_above_mentioned_composition'' B._THE_COOKBOOK *_Chapter_III:_''To_make_candied_orange_(fruit).html" "title="aphrodisiac.html" ;"title="ften erroneously described as for an aphrodisiac">ften erroneously described as for an aphrodisiac: ''A supreme and very useful composition for the health of the human body'' * Chapter XXVII: ''There follows the way in which one should use the above mentioned composition'' B. THE COOKBOOK * Chapter III: ''To make candied orange (fruit)">orange Orange most often refers to: *Orange (fruit), the fruit of the tree species '' Citrus'' × ''sinensis'' ** Orange blossom, its fragrant flower *Orange (colour), from the color of an orange, occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum * ...

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