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

  • Eagle, John.
Date:
1885
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    ('’rotour and Dovacht give in a copy of an Apothecary'^ hill for medicines supplied to the burgomaster of Audenarde in the year 1700. Dr. I’itt referring to the Dispensaries established by the College of I’hysicians for the sale of drugs and dis. pensing of prescriptions at cost price, says that on an average about twenty thousand proscri[)tions were made up at the three establisnments during the year, the cost of each dose being about one penny.