Today's car boot find...
Aug. 15th, 2020 03:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ffuturesWas a copy of
The British Pharmacopia 1898 with Indian and Colonial Addendum 1900.
About 600 pages describing all of the drugs in use at the time, how they were prepared, etc. etc.
What it doesn't say is what they were used for, since the pharmacist is supposed to prepare them, not prescribe them, but there's tons of interesting stuff, such as the way salicylic acid (aspirin) was prepared and how nasty it must have been in those days.
Ought to be pretty useful for Victorian/Edwardian RPGs etc. Unfortunately this is one of those books where it will be almost impossible to establish copyright status, with hundreds of contributors etc., so I don't think I can put it on line - and OCR would be a bastard due to the use of Latin etc. as well as English. Having said that, it may already be on line if someone has done the research, I haven't checked yet.
Meanwhile, if anyone needs any info let me know, I'll do my best to help.
Later - And before I started to lookhistory_monk has found it on line!
https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b24906293
Andautopope has found an essential supplement covering more stuff, the extra pharmacopœia of Martindale and Westcott.
https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b31361985
The British Pharmacopia 1898 with Indian and Colonial Addendum 1900.
About 600 pages describing all of the drugs in use at the time, how they were prepared, etc. etc.
What it doesn't say is what they were used for, since the pharmacist is supposed to prepare them, not prescribe them, but there's tons of interesting stuff, such as the way salicylic acid (aspirin) was prepared and how nasty it must have been in those days.
Ought to be pretty useful for Victorian/Edwardian RPGs etc. Unfortunately this is one of those books where it will be almost impossible to establish copyright status, with hundreds of contributors etc., so I don't think I can put it on line - and OCR would be a bastard due to the use of Latin etc. as well as English. Having said that, it may already be on line if someone has done the research, I haven't checked yet.
Meanwhile, if anyone needs any info let me know, I'll do my best to help.
Later - And before I started to look
history_monk has found it on line!https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b24906293
And
autopope has found an essential supplement covering more stuff, the extra pharmacopœia of Martindale and Westcott.https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b31361985
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Date: 2020-08-15 07:11 pm (UTC)Note that even in 1983, a copy of Martindale (then the 28th edition) sold new for about £200; today it's an online service accessed via monthly subscription and mostly by pharmacies and hospital drug information services. I have a 1960s-era 26th edition Martindale somewhere ...
Bingo! The Welcome Trust has it online; 20th edition is copyright-free.
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Date: 2020-08-15 07:22 pm (UTC)Hope your kafeklatch went well - I joined Reconvene but thought people who haven't met you should have priority, since they can't meet you in the bar.
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Date: 2020-08-16 05:36 pm (UTC)Um...
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Date: 2020-08-16 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
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