Unicorns, in Pierre Pomet, Histoire générale des Drogues, traitant des plantes, des animaux et des mineraux

This practical manual described popular 17th-century medicinal ingredients. In this chapter on the unicorn, Pierre Pomet, a Parisian pharmacist, stated that the horn was ‘well used, on account of the great properties attributed to it, principally against poisons’. The image shows five different species of unicorn, namely the camphur (a horned ass from Arabia), the pirassoipi (a unicorn with twin horns) and three unidentified breeds. Shown here: part 2, pp. 9