Curious Lore of Drugs and Medicines

1927. A fascinating story of four thousand years of progress from black magic to modern pharmacy. This story is told with a wealth of detail and a profusion of illustrations on the insistent search for the universal panacea throughout time. Priests, philosophers, poets, painters, kings, knaves, popes and charlatans have practiced the art of pharmacy through fumbling attempts and successful experiment. This book takes the reader from herbs to crushed bones, to fly specks, to astrology and magic, to the scientific compounds of today.

Author: Charles H. Lawall
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: 09/10/2010
Pages: 730
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.72lbs
Size: 7.52h x 9.25w x 1.46d
ISBN: 9781162584553

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