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  1. An anonymous author in late 16th-century France recorded 370 pages of art and technical recipes, among which are two especially puzzling entries: one for a medicine from the "east" that involved smoking rosemary in a pipe (a new medicinal device in the 16th century that had come to Europe from North America), and another for closing silkworms in a vessel in order to produce a gold powder. This essay traces these processes across Eurasia, and explores how such movement of medicinal and alchemical knowledge could occur across such long spans of distance and time. 
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