The Mayor of Nelson (Mr W. J. Moffatt), when welcoming delegates to the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Society's Conference at Nelson last week, said that, recently he had come-across a book dealing with medical prescriptions of the Middle Ages. Some of them were very remarkable and alarming. One contained the following ingredients!—‘The body of one toad, the eyebrow of one rat, two sprigs of nightshade,*the juice of a frog, half a bucket of snow boiled down to half a pint, etc.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3862, 20 March 1928, Page 25
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