Copal and anime — the incense of the Mexican temples in the European pharmacy

Copalli, the aromatic resin the Nahua burned before their gods and carried in braziers to meet the first Spaniards, entered European medicine as a fumigant and ointment base. Monardes published it to Europe from Seville in 1580 as one of two New Spain resins, copal and anime; Ximénez's 1615 Mexican imprint of Hernández names it in Nahuatl as copalquahuitl, records copalli as the Indians' general word for any gum, and separates several copal-bearing species. Both read from the page.