Chronicles of Pharmacy, Vol. 2 (of 2)
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CHRONICLES OF PHARMACY
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
ERRATA
ERRATUM.
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
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
XVII PHARMACOPŒIAS
The London Pharmacopœia.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
XXIV NAMES AND SYMBOLS
A Pharmaceutical Vocabulary.
Apothecaries’ Weights and Measures Signs.
℞
Planets and Metals.
Interpreting the Signs.
INDEX
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