Nostradamus C5 Q95: N's increased use of vision enhancing drugs
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015, May 2023

Nostradamus was a pharmacist and a physician with a claim to being able to see the future.

Whether this claim is true or false it would be incredible if Nostradamus did not use this latter skill to explore ideas useful to his own profession.

There is little hint of this in the visible text but there are obscure and seemingly meaningless passages such as The nautical ore will tempt the shadows that hint at things that are best kept secret in the 16th century.

The second line of this verse has a rare anagram for narcotic and is used in a setting which implies it is a drug of choice for lovers.

The tone of the verse and its hidden message suggest that Nostradamus was well aware of the dangers of drug-use and condemned its use by the ill-informed.

The use of the anagram for camphenes which are essential oils derived from wood links the text and the anagrams plus the reference to ' tempt the shadows' can be seen as a fair allusion to a drug induced trance.

Fom the text we can also deduce that Nostradamus extracted his drugs from marine waste.

The first line's anagrams differ in context and suggest the full answer to the quatrains lies in the numbers generated by Nostradamus' code.

The last section of of this fifth set of 100 verses has numerous verses with anagrams that hold little in the way of Nostradamus' major story lines, yet the ideas in them reflect drugs of special interest to Nostradamus.

This verse is one of those in a consecutive series of four comprising C.05 Q.94, C.05 Q.95, C.05 Q.96, C.05 Q.97.