Dodecapharmacum
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Dodecapharmacum
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A dodecapharmacum is a medicine of twelve ingredients. The best known was the Apostles' Ointment, or Ointment of Venus which was an ointment attributed to Avicenna (d.1037) made of twelve ingredients. The ingredients were turpentine, wax, gum ammoniac, birthwort roots, olibanum, bdellium, myrrh and galbanum, opoponax, verdigris, litharge, plus olive oil, and vinegar. Avicenna describes the ingredients and proportions of such a recipe in Qanun V.1.11. Some later writers have questioned whether th
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