This book is one to have ready for after New Year ... recipes
to cure Dyspepsia and other ailments of over-indulgence (vbg)
on pages 60-62
(one includes Rhubarb, Soda ,Cascara and Elixir Lactopeptin
all to be taken 2 spoonfuls after each meal )
June S
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G.D.Chaidopoulou
O Procheiros Iatros tou Ellinos en Ameriki ...
He "Aspis" apo G.D.Chaidopoulou kai Feely Bros
Typis "Chronou" San Francisco, California. 1915
170 p. illus index. $275.00
The binding is brown cloth, with scuffed, once gilded title on
spine and on front cover, which also has an embossed
portrait of Hygeia, now somewhat scuffed, stained and
worn with use. It is loose in binding, but the contents are
complete. Names on ffep and rear endpaper, and with
some fingermarks and other stains, but most text pages
are relatively clean.(Evidently once used as "working copy ")
There are some stamped marks of "Geo.D.Chaidopulo
P.O.Box 687 Chicago ILL" (done presumably by the author)
The Feely Brothers 'PHARMAKOPOII" operated the
"Pacific Drug Co." at 296 3rd.St San Francisco
(there are photographs of Georgios D Chaidopoulou and the
Feely Brothers on one of the introductory pages)
This is a fascinating collection of recipes/ formulae evidently
produced for the use of Greek speaking pharmacists in the USA.
This dates from the time when pharamacists compounded their
drugs from scratch, and it lists the ingredients and gram weights
of the components for various lotions, potions and cures.
There is an English-Greek glossary of materials (pp13-29)
Given that many of these ingredients were SERIOUSLY dangerous
(Strychnine, Arsenic, Belladonna, Opium etc.) it is as well that the
book includes a chapter of "Deletria kai Antidota" ! (p.130-144) )
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June Samaras
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