The Pharmaceutical era . PHARMACY OF JEA N DE RENOr. 1624. July 4. THE PHARMACEUTICAL ERA. Ad^ US Hen eiUe as a modern abuse is a grave error. Nicolas de Blegny,who wrote the curious Livre Commode for 1692,has a page or two of puffery not unworthy of atwentieth, century ad. writer. He informs us that Blegny. Junior, is the only artist to whom thedescendants of Signor Hieronimo of Ferranti, inven-tors of orvietan communicated the original secret;while his own remediesrange from a vegetablepreparation that curestoothache and decayedteeth forever (!) to aliqueur that purges andhelps


The Pharmaceutical era . PHARMACY OF JEA N DE RENOr. 1624. July 4. THE PHARMACEUTICAL ERA. Ad^ US Hen eiUe as a modern abuse is a grave error. Nicolas de Blegny,who wrote the curious Livre Commode for 1692,has a page or two of puffery not unworthy of atwentieth, century ad. writer. He informs us that Blegny. Junior, is the only artist to whom thedescendants of Signor Hieronimo of Ferranti, inven-tors of orvietan communicated the original secret;while his own remediesrange from a vegetablepreparation that curestoothache and decayedteeth forever (!) to aliqueur that purges andhelps digestion, radicallycures vertigo, headacheand the vapors, regulatesthe bowels, and, in oneword, rejuvenates like thewater of the fountain ofJouvence. The following paragraphis also worthy of quota-tion, for the double orquits system may be anovelty to the modernmedicine-man. .A. .solvent person whoknows the virtues of these ^^1 ^?^ ^H ^^^^^T * * 9V m^^ J«^^H ?r^as- — DRUG POT. remedies, guarantees, when desired,


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