- 1Preface
- 2Part I
- 3Chapter II — The Wizards of Early Greece
- 4Chapter III — The Wizards of the Roman Empire
- 5Chapter IV — The Fathers of Medicine
- 6Chapter V — The Early Age of Greek and Roman Pharmacy
- 7Chapter VI — Alchemy — The Alchemists
- 8Chapter VII — The Philosopher’s Stone
- 9Chapter VIII — The Black Art and Occult Sciences
- 10Chapter IX — The Art of Foretelling
- 11Chapter X — Black Magic
- 12Chapter XI — Superstition and Its Influence on Medicine
- 13Chapter XII — Love Philtres
- 14Chapter XIII — The Pioneers of Pharmacy and Botany — Physic Gardens
- 15Chapter XIV — Amulets, Talismans and Charms
- 16Chapter XV — Monk Physicians — Itinerant Doctors — Surgery in the M…
- 17Chapter XVI — Plant Lore, Drug Charms, and Folk Medicine
- 18Chapter XVII — Mummies and Their Use in Medicine — The Unicorn
- 19Chapter XVIII — The Origin of the Society of Apothecaries…
- 20Chapter XIX — Pharmacy in the Time of Queen Elizabeth
- 21Chapter XX — Famous Empirics and Their Nostrums
- 22Chapter XXI — The Antiquity and History of the Mortar
- 23Part II — Alchemy and Pharmacy in Literature
- 24Chapter II — Shakespeare
- 25Chapter III — Spenser
- 26Chapter IV — Goethe
- 27Chapter V — Le Sage
- 28Chapter VI — Ben Jonson
- 29Chapter VII — Sir Walter Scott
- 30Chapter VIII — Dumas
- 31Chapter IX — Reade
- 32Chapter X — Dickens
- 33Chapter XI — Marryat
The Mystery and Romance of Alchemy and Pharmacy
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