Front Cover
THE MYSTERY AND ROMANCE
OF
ALCHEMY AND PHARMACY
THE SCIENTIFIC PRESS, LTD.
THE MYSTERY AND ROMANCE
OF
ALCHEMY AND PHARMACY
BY

C. J. S. THOMPSON
AUTHOR OF “POISON ROMANCE AND POISON MYSTERIES,”
“THE CHEMIST’S COMPENDIUM,” “THE CULT OF BEAUTY,”
ETC., ETC.
LONDON
THE SCIENTIFIC PRESS, Limited
28 & 29 SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND, W.C.
1897
PREFACE.
It has been my endeavour in the followingpages to sketch, however imperfectly, somephases of the romance and mystery that havesurrounded the arts of medicine, alchemy, andpharmacy from the earliest period of which wehave record down to the close of the eighteenthcentury. The influence of the past on thepresent is greater than we commonly suppose.In this age of rapid scientific progress andbrilliant research, we are apt to overlook andlose sight of the patient labours of the earlypioneers of science, many of whom laid thefoundations of discoveries that have since provedof inestimable value to mankind. Hence thehistory of the past, whether in science or in art,is always worthy of study and attention.
My thanks are due to the Editor of thePharmaceutical Journal for permission to reproduceseveral illustrations which appeared in itspages together with a portion of this work.
C. J. S. T
Liverpool, 1897.
[vii]
CONTENTS.
  • PART I.
  • CHAPTER I.
  • The Dawn of the Art of Healing.
  • 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
  • CHAPTER II.
  • The Wizards of Early Greece.
  • Tiresias—Abaris—Pythagoras—Epimenides—Empedocles—Aristras—Hermotimuspages 14-23
  • CHAPTER III.
  • The Wizards of the Roman Empire.
  • A Roman sorceress—Virgil’s sorceress—Canidia—A witches’ incantation  pages 24-29[viii]
  • CHAPTER IV.
  • The Fathers of Medicine.
  • Æsculapius—Hippocrates—Diocles—Praxagoras—Chrysippus—Hierphilus—Erasistratus—Serapion—Asclepiades—Galen—His    system of treatment—Medical practice in the fifth century—Alexander of    Tralles—The fees of Roman practitioners—Votive                        
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