SC - Gemstones

[Olwen the Odd]

Those gems might be nice on a dress, but they are useless for 
medicinal purposes. They didn't exist in period, so we don't know 
what their virtues are, so we have no idea which ones would cure and 
which ones would make the patient worse.

Note that the original recipe gave a list of candidate gems. You are 
supposed to select from that list that ones that are good for what 
ails you, according to the advice of your physician.

Anyway, if you need gems, I have lots of rough.

At 6:18 PM +0000 10/6/00, Olwen the Odd wrote:
>OK, we have a volunteer with the gems, who's got the chicken?
>
>>From: Christine A Seelye-King <mermayde at juno.com>
>>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>>Subject: SC - Gemstones
>>Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 01:06:41 -0400
>>
>>The stones that are sewn to my dress for this weekend are called
>>"fiber-eye".  They are made from fiber optic glass, and have a
>>saffire/tiger eye quality to them.  They are classified as semi-precious.
>>
>>Christianna
>>
>>On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:31:14 -0700 david friedman <ddfr at best.com> writes:
>>>  At 1:55 PM +0000 10/5/00, Erika Thomenius wrote:
>>>
>>>  >Also, you can get lab-grown stones a lot of places.  (ex.
>>>  >www.thaigem.com).. Would that be cheating?  :)
>>>
>>>  I don't know--it depends whether synthetics have the same virtues as
>>>
>>>  natural. Clearly you have to do some research. I suggest going
>>>  through one of the medieval lapidaries to find out what virtues each
>>>
>>>  stone has, then constructing suitable tests. I don't think you can
>>>  get synthetic amethyst, so the "does it protect me from getting
>>>  drunk" test, however entertaining, may not be an option. And some of
>>>
>>>  the others might be a bit hazardous. Be selective.
>>>
>>>  A further consideration is that something labelled "synthetic X" may
>>>
>>>  actually be "synthetic Y in a color that looks like X." Many
>>>  synthetic gemstones are either corundum or spinel, colored to match
>>>  whatever they are supposed to be.
>>>  --
>>>  David/Cariadoc
>>>  http://www.daviddfriedman.com/
>>>
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