The Mystery and Romance of Alchemy and Pharmacy

· 1943

The foundation of the art of healing—The most ancient record of medicine and pharmacy—The _Ebers Papyrus_—Origin of the term pharmacist—Drugs used in ancient Egypt—Early Jewish medicines—The antiquity of medicine and alchemy in China—The Chinese and the Philosopher’s Stone—Ancient Chinese _materia medica_—The medical art in ancient Greece—The Grecian temples of medicine—Methods of treatment—The oath of Hippocrates _pages_ 1-13 Tiresias—Abaris—Pythagoras—Epimenides—Empedocles—Aristras— Hermotimus _pages_ 14-23…

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