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CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ERRATA

ERRATUM.

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

Precious Stones.

The Four Officinal Capitals.

Philonium,

Diascordium,

Theriaca.

Kermes.

Mel Ægyptiacum

Terra Sigillata.

Oil of Bricks.

Arquebusade Water

Four Thieves Vinegar

Elixir Proprietatis.

Balsam of Sulphur

The London Pharmacopœia.

The Apothecary in “Romeo and Juliet”

Hebenon.

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

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.

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

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.

ALKALOIDS.

ANÆSTHETICS.

A Mysterious Anæsthetic.

SYNTHETIC REMEDIES.

A Pharmaceutical Vocabulary.

Apothecaries’ Weights and Measures Signs.

℞

Planets and Metals.

Interpreting the Signs.

INDEX

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