CHAPTER V.

THE EARLY AGE OF GREEK AND ROMAN PHARMACY.

Celsus—Roman pharmacy—Methods of administration—Antidotes—Grecian remedy for hydrophobia—Chemical bodies and drugs employed by the Greeks and Romans—Dioscorides—His work on _materia medica_—Ancient method of collecting opium—Preparation of wool fat—Drugs used in Pompeii and Herculaneum _pages_ 39-46