Minerals, used as medicine, were once administered to people according to their social status and financial means. Thus an emerald was employed as a medicant to cure an aristocrat, while green porcelain Was used to heal a poor person. In like fashion blue glass was substituted for la pie lazuli or the sapphire.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 192, 16 August 1939, Page 13
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