The old-style pharmacy often used poisonous compounds, thus lending substance to Voltaire's complaint that physicians " prescribe medicine of which they know little to cure dieases of which they know less in human beings of which they know nothing"
Interior view of an 18th or 19th century pharmacy. Verso: WHO/945.General Pharmacy. SM 5-1981.
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