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Chronicles of Pharmacy, Vol. 2 (of 2)

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Chronicles of Pharmacy, Vol. 2 (of 2)

A. C. Wootton and Peter MacEwan

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Cow dung, powdered mummy, and man himself all had entries in the old pharmacopoeias, and Wootton refuses to look away. This second volume of his pharmacy chronicles catalogs animal substances in medicine, officially recognized and otherwise, then wanders the stranger corners of the druggist's art. Equal parts scholarship and sideshow. Browse it once and you will never romanticize the old apothecary again.

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151 chapters

  1. 1CHRONICLES OF PHARMACY
  2. 2CONTENTS
  3. 3ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. 4ERRATA
  5. 5ERRATUM.
  6. 6XV ANIMALS IN PHARMACY
  7. 7Animal Substances in Pharmacy.
  8. 8Officially Recognised Animal Medicines.
  9. 9Homo: Man as a Medicine.
  10. 10Cow-Dung as a Medicine.
  11. 11Excrements as Medicines.
  12. 12Miscellaneous Animal Remedies.
  13. 13Bezoar Stones.
  14. 14Gascoyne’s or Gascoign’s Powder.
  15. 15Vipers.
  16. 16Mummies.
  17. 17Dippel’s Animal Oil.
  18. 18Spermaceti.

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