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A printed Traité des fardemens et confitures issues apothecary recipes for cosmetics, preserves, and a plague powder

The cosmetics-and-preserves book is dated by a 1552 proem and first printed about 1555/56, distinct from Les Prophéties. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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Context

Guild sugar and cosmetics are craft knowledge. Shared borrowing from earlier recipe collections remains. Split any later harm-path of bleeding into a different heading if sourced; this stores print access to craft.

Nostradamus’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

The cosmetics-and-preserves book is dated by a 1552 proem and first printed about 1555/56, distinct from Les Prophéties. Wellcome and other medical libraries later hold copies; those catalogues are evidence. He did not typeset a 1990s English ‘Elixirs’ volume.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Nostradamus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Wellcome Collection — works search, NostradamusWellcome Collection · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — NostradamusEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica’s physician identity and the independently catalogued Traité of cosmetics and conserves record a printed apothecary craft book in the mid-1550s, including a chapter later read as a plague powder.

Nostradamus did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A jam chapter is not a quatrain.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorNostradamus
  2. contributed toFactA printed Traité des fardemens et confitures issues apothecary recipes for cosmetics, preserves, and a plague powder
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). A printed Traité des fardemens et confitures issues apothecary recipes for cosmetics, preserves, and a plague powder. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/nos-traite-fardemens-1555

https://factrail.ai/facts/nos-traite-fardemens-1555

Accessed 17 October 2026.

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