Early pharmaceuticals ingredient

gos618 | 14:13 Fri 23rd Jul 2010 | Science

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A friend of mine is deciphering a prescription(?) or list of ingredients for a 16th century treatment,and has happened on one that seems unlikely.
Due to the poor handwriting and age of the document it may not be spelt exactly as follows, but may be something like:: 'Chuttononi'.
He also thinks that within the context of the document, it may be some sort of food stuff, but may be wrong.

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theprof

Hmm, let's move away from the word itself for a moment. Is your friend certain that the word contains ten letters?

theprof

It would also be useful if you can confirm that document is written in English.

gos618

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Now I've had a look at the word on the document, (which he has now sent me as a scanned attachment to an email, and which I would be happy to forward by email to any interested individual) I can add some detail. The 'ingredients' are written in Latin, although some of the words are recognisably English. EG. Antimon, Sulphur, Aurat. No problem about these at all. The word appears to have 11 letters, and may be Chittionioni, or Chittonioni. The C at the front could even be an opening bracket, which would suggest it is related to the preceding word, which is antimon, but this may be a red herring, since there is nothing to indicate a closing bracket. I've tried googling various combinations, but nothing comes back!!

jno

I can't help but if you post it on an image-hosting site like Tinypic you could print the link they give you here and people could have a look for themselves.

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