Thanks to everyone who voted on the boar. Option B was correct — medieval doctors actually recommended smearing raw boar’s fat directly onto a shattered bone, believing it acted as a magical biological glue to fuse the skeleton back together. Today we’re working on the next creature from the Beasts of Sloane: the Medieval Elephant. The 12th-century artist had clearly never seen one in real life. That explains the downward tusks, clawed feet, and weirdly human eye. Since our source is an apothecary text, let's see what they thought an elephant was good for. Also, drop a name suggestion for him in the comments — the best one goes on the back of the name pin. According to 12th-century medical texts, what was the primary apothecary use of an elephant?