The Mystery and Romance of Alchemy and Pharmacy

by C. J. S. Thompson

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Contents

1. Preface
2. Chapter I. The Dawn of the Art of Healing
3. Chapter II. The Wizards of Early Greece
4. Chapter III. The Wizards of the Roman Empire
5. Chapter IV. The Fathers of Medicine
6. Chapter V. The Early Age of Greek and Roman Pharmacy
7. Chapter VI. Alchemy—The Alchemists
8. Chapter VII. The Philosopher’s Stone
9. Chapter VIII. The Black Art and Occult Sciences
10. Chapter IX. The Art of Foretelling
11. Chapter X. Black Magic
12. Chapter XI. Superstition and Its Influence on Medicine
13. Chapter XII. Love Philtres
14. Chapter XIII. The Pioneers of Pharmacy and Botany—Physic Gardens
15. Chapter XIV. Amulets, Talismans and Charms
16. Chapter XV. Monk Physicians—Itinerant Doctors—Surgery in the Middle Ages
17. Chapter XVI. Plant Lore, Drug Charms, and Folk Medicine
18. Chapter XVII. Mummies and Their Use in Medicine—The Unicorn
19. Chapter XVIII
20. Chapter XIX. Pharmacy in the Time of Queen Elizabeth
21. Chapter XX. Famous Empirics and Their Nostrums
22. Chapter XXI. The Antiquity and History of the Mortar
23. Chapter I. Chaucer
24. Chapter II. Shakespeare
25. Chapter III. Spenser
26. Chapter IV. Goethe
27. Chapter V. Le Sage
28. Chapter VI. Ben Jonson
29. Chapter VII. Sir Walter Scott
30. Chapter VIII. Dumas
31. Chapter IX. Reade
32. Chapter X. Dickens
33. Chapter XI. Marryat

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