# A printed Traité des fardemens et confitures issues apothecary recipes for cosmetics, preserves, and a plague powder Date: 1555 ## The fact 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. It is one event. ## 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](/people/nostradamus)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. 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. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file. ## Evidence and sources Wellcome Collection — works search, Nostradamus and Britannica — Nostradamus independently describe this instrument. Official or archival record: Wellcome Collection — works search, Nostradamus (https://wellcomecollection.org/search/works?query=Nostradamus; Wellcome Collection). ## Significance Vernacular apothecary print is a knowledge-access path of high confidence on the book, low on unique health outcomes. ## What is established and what is not Established as a sourced public record of this instrument at the date assigned here. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Nostradamus. They are not a public rating. Nostradamus did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. A jam chapter is not a quatrain. Do not merge this with the 1555 centuries book. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Nostradamus. ## People - Nostradamus: https://factrail.ai/people/nostradamus ## Drivers - Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access ## Sources - https://wellcomecollection.org/search/works?query=Nostradamus - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nostradamus ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nos-traite-fardemens-1555