gems, lore, history, medicinal use of gems, magical gems, healing gems, Medieval gems

Sinkankas: An expanded version of the author’s doctoral disseration of the same title. In the general part, he discusses the medicinal uses of gemstones among prehistoric and primitive peoples, then the Indians, Chinese, the peoples of the Mid East, the and others, up to and including the Middle Ages. A thus created of how, where, and why picture is gemstones entered into pharmacopeias. The emphasis is on actual specific medicinal uses and less prevention through imagined magical powers. The descriptive part of the text systematically describes the gemstones and gives for each references to the literature in which their use in medicine is mentioned as well as what such stones were supposed to treat or cure. A valuable reference work. Reported in reprint, Ulm: 1956;