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pf^OjVI THE LilBRARY 



ADELAIDE RUDOLPH 

 Assistant Librarian 



A mediaeval trtacleur, "who wandered f'om place 

 to place, selling his nostrum to the rustics." — Corner. 



The paper by Dr. George W. Corner 

 on the old antidotes and cure-alls, Mith- 

 ridatium and Theriac, published in the 

 Johns Hopkins H spital Bulletin of June, 

 191 5, has been widely quoted by the 

 press. Naturally it has appealed to those 

 interested in the history of remedies. 

 And since we have so good a collection 

 of old dispensatories in this library, it 

 was decided to use them for an illustra- 

 tive exhibition of the source material 

 upon which an historical paper, like that 

 of Dr. Corner's, is constructed. 



The Bulletin mentioned above was ac- 

 cordingly, obtained, and forms, in fact, 

 the nucleus of the present exhibit in our 

 show-case. We append a short descrip- 

 tion of this exhibit for the benefit of 

 those interested. 



On the left of Dr. Corner's article is 

 seen the Greek Ciambic poem of Democ- 

 rates, which introduced Mithridatium 

 to the world in the middle of the first 

 century A. D. On the right is the much 

 longer Greek poem of Andromachus, 

 Nero's physician, which did the same 



