APOTHECARIES

WHAT IS AN APOTHECARY?

• An individual in Medieval Europe that sold wine, spices and herbs.
• Role: supply drugs to doctors, not prescribe medicine themselves.

THE SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES

• Established in 1617
• Gave apothecaries freedom in the kinds of medicine they could sell
• Like quack remedies and patent medicines

Quack remedies: Medicine that had been sold to someone, knowing that it wouldn't work.
Quack: someone who sells quack remedies

• Medicine that had been sold to someone, knowingly that it doesn't work
• Quack: someone who sells those types of remedies

Mortar & Pestle
-Used to compound medicines from scratch. To suit patients specific needs

WEIGHTS AND SCALES

• historical system of mass units
• fulcrum, horizontal beam that holds another beam that is attached to the weights
• Two pans at ends of the beam to hold materials
• used by physicians & apothecaries for medical recipes

JARS AND BOTTLES

• "Enameled glass vessels"

DISTILLATION STILL

• apparatus used to distill liquid mixtures by heating to a boil and then cooling to condense the vapor.

Rosemary
-Put under pillow it keep away nightmares
-Helps headaches & stomach aches
-Eliminates odor of deceased
-Shampoo

ASPARAGUS
-heart failure
-clears bladder
-laxative properties

MINT

• Use as mouthwash
• Whiten teeth
• Freshen breath
• Mostly for dental hygiene

Basil
-Symbol of love and hate
-Use in cooking postage or boiled greens or salads

• Use in cooking postage or boiled greens or salads
• Symbol of love and hate