Notes on pharmacy in the olden time, collected and illustrated / by John Eagle.

  • Eagle, John
Date:
1885
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Credit: Notes on pharmacy in the olden time, collected and illustrated / by John Eagle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Doctor of .Medicine, He certainly mu.'-t liavc Icon more industrious than most of his contemj orarics, tor several of his -works formed bulky volumes and went through not a few editions. Dr. It. I’itt in his “Craft and Frauds of Physio cx. jKis’d ” deals specially with the retail cost of drugs, and gives a long list of the prices that were current at the time he wrote. As in juevious instances I shall content myself with a selection of the more mdewnr. thy, among which occurs Ithubarb root at seventy .shillings the jiound. Prices j>er drool m, FoUk n and Cochineal Gd. Gamboge, Balsam Cojiaibie, Jala]), Jap- an Earth Id. Oils of Aniseed, Caraway, and Junij;er Jd. Oil of cloves 8d. Oils of rue, chamomile, and lav- ender 1/-. Elaterium 8/-. Pil et'chiiv, Ituffus pills. Stomach pills, Eudius pills 4d. Purifio'd scammony4d. Per ounce, Gum benzoin, Cam])hor, and ]Manna/8d (the common dose is double that quantit}’, and is the dearest medicin us’d in PhysicJ, IMcelu acan 4d. Senna Gd. Venice turpentine 2d. Cantharidcs 1/-. Tincture of Satfrtai and Syruj) of rhubarb Gd. [ when the })riie is dear] Syrup of buckthorn 2d, of violets 3d. of roses 3d. Oxymel of squills and Lenitive electuary 3d. ord- inary I’lasters 2d, Blistering ])laster 3d. Oxycroccum plaster 8d. Tincture of castor 1/- . Steel wine 3/. the ])int. As to the charges for disj tnsing ])rescrij)tions the only inf( rmation 1 have met with is what Messrs.
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