SC - Gemstones

[Jenne Heise]

> >My understanding is that for a recipe such as this, you would go to your
> >apothecary and order the stones required. Trust in apothecaries was
> >apparently high, as many doctors complained that people were taken in by
> >substitutions. 
> Many twentieth century people are taken in by a variety of scams, but 
> hopefully my twentieth century persona is not one of them. Similarly, 
> my period persona doesn't know a lot of things my twentieth century 
> persona does, but he isn't particularly credulous.

By the way, _I_ am not talking about substitution of glass gems for real
ones here, but about substituions of items that in all meaningful ways--
or at least to the naked eye and the tests available to the average person
from the middle ages-- resemble the real thing. 

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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
"I do my job. I refuse to be responsible for other people's managerial 
hallucinations." -- Lady Jemina Starker