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Take a trip through time and discover what proprietary ingredients went into the medicine cures found inside those antique medicine bottles that are now endeared collectibles! Who knows, maybe you can cook up something interesting from the formulas found inside this ebook.
Fenner's was meant to be a working sourcebook for the individual pharmacist desiring to furnish product for a pharmacy. Every possible product is dealt with, from tinctures to fluidextracts to dyes to wax paper to imitation booze. Not worried about the "official" status of a preparation, if there was a customer demand, Fenner dealt with it.
Part I and Part II: Introductory material
Part 1, Drugs and medicinal substances defined, Part II, methods of preparation described - 53 pages, 7 illustrations
Part III: Working Formular
Abstracts, alkaloids, waters, balsams, waxes, cerates, papers, colors, confections, cordials, decoctions, elixirs, plasters, emulsions, essences, extracts, distilled extracts, and fluid extracts - over 1,000 formulae in this first section alone. 242 pages
Part IV: Standard Remedies and Proprietary Medicines
"The following formulas are designed for making a complete line of Standard Proprietary Remedies, which may be prepared and put up by druggists, or others, for local trade or for the market." - 118 pages, 236 formulae and recipes
Part V: Toilet Preparations and Perfumes:
Cosmetics, mouth products, hair products, lip salves, perfumes, colognes, sachets, etc. - 43 pages
Part VI: Miscellaneous
Adhesives, baking powder, inks, polishes, wines, real and artificial, varnishes, etc. - 45 pages, 180 recipes
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