CHAPTER I.

Concerning Foreign Items, not pertaining to the Medical Workshop.

§. 1.
Although the Catalog of Workshops original: "Catalogus Officinarum"; refers to the official inventory or price list of a pharmacy promises nothing but medicines in its titles original: "in rubro," literally 'in red,' referring to the red-inked headings in legal or formal documents, in the actual text original: "in nigro," literally 'in black' there occur not a few things which by no means deserve that name. Nor would I make mention of these, were it not for the fear that I might seem to have failed to notice them, as they are rashly scattered here and there among the medicines whose censorship I have undertaken. I suppose, of course, as a firm principle, that the Duty of the Pharmacist original: "Pharmacopæus" consists in this: that he prepares for the sick the medicines prescribed by the Physician original: "Medicus". Whatever, therefore, is not employed by Physicians for the cure of human beings, pertains in no way to the workshop.

§. 2.
Now indeed I include, 1. those things intended for brute animals: Horse Aloes original: "Aloe caballina"; a coarse, impure grade of aloes used in veterinary medicine, Horse Sulfur original: "Sulphur caballinum"; impure sulfur, Ointment for horse hooves, and another against horse mange, powder for cattle, powder for pigs. Is it not beneath the dignity of the Pharmacist to prepare, keep, and sell things which by better right would adorn the workshop of a smith or the stable of a groom, or the sheepfold, or the bag of a herdsman or swineherd? And just as it is hardly becoming for a Physician to practice Veterinary medicine original: "artem Veterinariam": so too he cannot escape the laughter and mockery of those men, who would dare to meddle in such things or hope for any small profit therefrom, for the healing of which any uneducated person has found innumerable remedies everywhere at hand.

§. 3.
What shall I say 2. regarding poisons, such as white, yellow, and red Arsenic, Orpiment original: "Auripigmentum"; a deep yellow arsenic sulfide mineral, and Cobalt? We use them for killing dormice, mice, and flies, but by a prudent and conscientious Physician they are scarcely—if at all—counted among Medicines. I once saw a camp Surgeon original: "Chirurgum castrensem", who with a few grains of arsenic