Skilful Physician

Skilful Physician
Author: Carey D. Balaban
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2020-08-26
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1000159671

This book, The Skilful Physician, is a collection of guidelines for maintaining one's health plus recipes for disease remedies, perfumes and treated wines. It deals with the premise that preservation of good health requires attention to proper diet and life-style.

Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, Or the London Dispensatory

Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, Or the London Dispensatory
Author: Nicholas Culpeper
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9781391710129

Excerpt from Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, or the London Dispensatory: Further Adorned by the Studies and Collections of the Fellows Now Living, of the Said College Kind Country-men, I conceive it convenient at this time 52 jizy fomething concerning this Book in particular, and m}. Books in general. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The British Pharmacopoeia, 1864 to 2014

The British Pharmacopoeia, 1864 to 2014
Author: Anthony C. Cartwright
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-03-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317039793

The British Pharmacopoeia has provided official standards for the quality of substances, medicinal products and articles used in medicine since its first publication in 1864. It is used in over 100 countries and remains an essential global reference in pharmaceutical research and development and quality control. This book explores how these standards have been achieved through a comprehensive review of the history and development of the pharmacopoeias in the UK, from the early London, Edinburgh and Dublin national pharmacopoeias to the creation of the British Pharmacopoeia and its evolution over 150 years. Trade in medicinal substances and products has always been global, and the British Pharmacopoeia is placed in its global context as an instrument of the British Empire as it first sought to cover the needs of countries such as India and latterly as part of its role in international harmonisation of standards in Europe and elsewhere. The changing contents of the pharmacopoeias over this period reflect the changes in medical practice and the development of dosage forms from products dispensed by pharmacists to commercially manufactured products, from tinctures to the latest monoclonal antibody products. The book will be of equal value to historians of medicine and pharmacy as to practitioners of medicine, pharmacy and pharmaceutical analytical chemistry.

Ladies' Dispensatory

Ladies' Dispensatory
Author: Carey Balaban
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2019-11-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135342350

Leonard Sowerby's self-healing manual for women, The Ladies' Dispensatory, emerged in England in 1652 amidst an abundance of medical self-help books for the lay citizen. Written for both the common patient and the amateur health provider, these manuals of home remedies provided their readers with a variety of potential solutions to common ailments or disease. Sowerby's Dispensatory was written primarily for curing women's health problems, and in that regard, focuses heavily on gynecologic problems (the Dispensatory includes numerous preparations for inducing abortion), breast complaints, personal hygiene and cosmetic applications. Balaban, Erlen and Siderits have resurrected Sowerby's original manuscript and have provided both historical and medical explanation of its uses and usefulness. From a common garlic remedy to 'fortify the brain' to 'a hog's heel, burned to powder' for easing colic, The Ladies' Dispensatory is a delightfully unique look at health and hygiene in the seventeenth century. Also inlcludes nine maps.