The mystery and romance of alchemy and pharmacy (1897)
Thompson, C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel), 1862-1943 · London, The Scientific press, ltd. · leaf 207
led sugar,with the spirits ptisanne, besides the extremedearness, was almost wholly useless, in regardthat the patient being much in the mending handwhen they were sent unto him. He sent backto the doctor about seven-eighths of the oiledsugar, and yet he paid for the whole. The oilof sweet almonds,… … AN APOTHECARY.From a drawing, 1641. lier was at length cured of his ailments, whichhe certainly ought to have been from the Apothecaries and their Bills. 189 multiplicity of the remedies employed. Many ofthe forms in which medicine was administeredin those days have entirely gone out of use,…
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