An outline of the history of pharmacy in Ireland / by William D. Moore.

  • Moore, William Daniel, 1813-1871.
Date:
1848
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Credit: An outline of the history of pharmacy in Ireland / by William D. Moore. 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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    from the chiefs to the lowest in the state, were warriors, en- ured to fatigue, or hardy cultivators of the soil.”(a) “ But as the relations of the Romans with the Greeks became mul- tiplied, and as luxury progressed among the former, physicians were seen to establish themselves in the capital of the world(6). The Greek physicians who first settled there were, for the most part, proprietors of baths; and many of these adventurers were slaves whom their masters, incapable at first of appreciating the advantages of science, and afterwards enervated by the luxury of the Greeks, sold or set free, after having presented them with considerable gifts in return for benefits received from them. These freedmen established shops, which the Romans called medicinee, in which they sold medicines and profitably exercised their talents. But other physicians, who came to Rome under more favourable circumstances, enjoyed advan- tages and privileges which an art so noble as medicine is en- titled to exact from all civilized nations; and when the Romans expelled the Greeks from Italy, the law which banished them excepted by name those who followed the profession of medi- cine.”(c) The establishment of the Alexandrian school, and the cul- tivation of science at that seat of learning, after some time led to the division of medicine into distinct professions; accord- ingly we find it described by Celsus, who lived about the time of Augustus or Tiberius, as consisting of the departments of’ dietetics, pharmacy, and surgery. “ These terms did not, however, possess precisely the same signification as in modern times. Dietetics comprehended not the regulation of diet alone, but every circumstance connected with the general health or management of the patient, and corresponded very nearly to the medicus, or physician, of later times.(d) The second included (а) Sprengel, Hisloire de la Medicine, traduite de V Allemand par Jour dan, vol. i. p. 176. (б) Sprengel, Op. r.it., p. 189. (c) Sprengel, Op. cit., p. 190. (d) History of Medicine, Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine, p. xv.