Chronicles of Pharmacy Vol. II

About this eBook

Author

Wootton, A. C., -1910

Title

Chronicles of Pharmacy, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Macmillan and co., limited,1910.

Credits

Karin Spence, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RS: Medicine: Pharmacy and materia medica

Subject

Pharmacy -- History

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 67414

Release Date

February 16, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.CHRONICLES OF PHARMACY
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.ILLUSTRATIONS
7. 7.ERRATA
8. 8.ERRATUM.
9. 9.Untitled
10. 10.XV ANIMALS IN PHARMACY — Animal Substances in Pharmacy. — Officially Recognised Animal Medicines. — Homo: Man as a Medicine. — Cow-Dung as a Medicine. — Excrements as Medicines. — Miscellaneous Animal Remedies. — Bezoar Stones. — Gascoyne’s or Gascoign’s Powder. — Vipers. — Mummies. — Dippel’s Animal Oil. — Spermaceti. — Honey
11. 11.XVI REMINISCENCES OF ANCIENT PHARMACY — Precious Stones. — The Four Officinal Capitals. — Antidotus Mithridatica Damocratis. — Electuarium Theriacale Magnum. — Confectio Damocratis (Mithridatium). — Theriaca Andromachi. — Philonium, — Diascordium, — Theriaca. — Kermes. — Mel Ægyptiacum — Terra Sigillata. — Oil of Bricks. — Arquebusade Water — Four Thieves Vinegar — Elixir Proprietatis. — Balsam of Sulphur
12. 12.XVII PHARMACOPŒIAS — The London Pharmacopœia.
13. 13.XVIII SHAKESPEARE’S PHARMACY. — The Apothecary in “Romeo and Juliet” — Brooke’s Version, 1562. — Shakespeare’s First Rendering. — Shakespeare’s Revised Version (Third Quarto, 1609). — Hebenon.
14. 14.XIX SOME NOTED DRUGS. — Aloes. — Castor Oil. — Cinchona. — Tinct. Cinchonæ Co. — Cinchona or Chinchona. — Cultivation of Cinchona in the East. — Cubebs — Digitalis. — Guaiacum — Ipecacuanha. — Kousso. — Opium. — Quassia — Sarsaparilla. — Stramonium
15. 15.XX FAMILIAR MEDICINES AND SOME NOTES OF THEIR HISTORIES. — Black Draught. — Blaud’s Pills. — The Chelsea Pensioner. — Citrine Ointment. — Cold Cream. — Diachylon Plaster. — Dover’s Powder. — Unguentum Elemi. — Fowler’s Solution of Arsenic. — Friar’s Balsam. — Gregory’s Powder. — Hiera Picra. — Laudanum. — Tinctura Lavandulæ Composita — Lenitive Electuary. — Compound Liquorice Powder. — Opodeldoc. — Paregoric. — Pil. Cochia. — Plummer’s Pills. — Ammoniated Tincture of Quinine. — Compound Soap Pills. — Decoctions of Sarsaparilla. — Seidlitz Powders — Turner’s Cerate.
16. 16.XXI NOTED NOSTRUMS — Patent Medicines. — Anderson’s Scots Pills. — Anodyne Necklaces. — Daffy’s Elixir. — Baume de Fioraventi. — Baume Tranquille — Baume de Vie. — Dutch Drops. — Godfrey’s Cordial. — Eau des Carmes. — Goddard’s Drops. — Eau Medicinale D’Husson.—Colchicum. — James’s Powder. — St. John Long’s Liniment. — Seignette’s Salts. — Singleton’s Golden Eye Ointment. — Mrs. Stephens’s Cure for Stone. — Earl of Rochester as Quack. — Warburg’s Tincture. — Ward’s Remedies. — The Whitworth Doctors
17. 17.XXII POISONS IN HISTORY — Biblical Poisons. — Poisoning in Rome. — Poisons in Ancient Times. — Poisonings in the Middle Ages. — Credulity in regard to Poisons. — The Marchioness of Brinvilliers — Tofana. — The Chambre Ardente. — Negro Cæsar’s Antidote. — Arsenic Eating. — Immunity. — Modern Toxicology.
18. 18.XXIII PHARMACY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY — ALKALOIDS. — ANÆSTHETICS. — A Mysterious Anæsthetic. — SYNTHETIC REMEDIES. — Early Distinction between Inorganic and Organic Chemistry. — Synthetic Organic Compounds. — Substitution. — Homologues. — Valency. — Structural Formulas, — Aniline. — Imitation of Natural Alkaloids — Other Synthetic Products. — Physiological Speculations. — Alcohol, Ether, Aldehyde, Acetic Acid. — Chloral Hydrate and Chloroform. — Sulphonal. — Acetanilide and Phenacetin. — Salol. — Antipyrin.
19. 19.XXIV NAMES AND SYMBOLS — A Pharmaceutical Vocabulary. — Apothecaries’ Weights and Measures Signs. — ℞ — Planets and Metals. — Interpreting the Signs.
20. 20.INDEX — FOOTNOTES:

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