From the first healers of antiquity through the wizards of Greece and Rome, the fathers of medicine, the alchemists and their search for the philosopher’s stone, Thompson traces the superstitions that shadowed the history of drugs. Chapters cover divination, black magic, charms, amulets and love philtres, ending at the close of the eighteenth century.
An entertaining history of medicine’s stranger byways, written by a pharmacist with an eye for curious lore. Download the free EPUB.