Camouflaging Distasteful Drugs: Their Habitat, Method of Gathering and Uses.

Reed & Carnick; Jersey City, New Jersey; 1924. Tan and brown wraps, printed, stapled, 8 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches, 23 pp., color illustrations. Very good minus (mild soiling, covers; mild edgewear; upper spine modestly bumped and a little creased; pages clean and binding tight). Rare (one OCLC library holding). From the introduction: "Theodore Roosevelt once urged that every one should be familiar with the plant life and the wild life of America. Physicians especially should be acquainted with the source of the drugs they are prescribing, many of which are to be found in the vegetable kingdom of our own United States. That is the purpose of this book. No effort has been spared to present to the medical profession a treatise on the subject which is interesting from the standpoint of good reading, historically and botanically accurate and physiologically and professionally valuable. In preparing the drawings, it was necessary for the artist to familiarize himself with the science of preparing medicines. In making the cinchona drawings, for instance, it was necessary to know the color and character of bark quills, the size, thickness, nature of the fractured ends, as well as their color. Each drug required a tremendous amount of study and research in order that the pictures might be absolutely accurate. More than one hundred books in different languages were consulted. Medical men are well aware that the majority of the pharmacopeial drugs are ill-tasting, often to the point of nausea. To the delicate stomach they are taboo, unless some vehicle can be used which will disguise the unpleasant taste. Such an auxiliary is found in Elixir Peptenzyme, a delightfully palatable vehicle which serves the double purpose of camouflaging the taste, and, at the same time, aiding in the perfect assimilation of the drug owing to its digestive action. Elixir Peptenzyme is perfectly compatible and readily miscible with nearly all drugs in common use, and one of the functions of this book is to indicate clearly to the physician how such distasteful drugs can best be administered and prescribed to the advantage of the patient." (3214002). F. Soft cover.