Frankfurt pills
The Frankfurt pills are a historical medicine and an invention of the Frankfurt doctor Johann Hartmann Beyer († 1625). From 1589 to 1600 he was a city doctor in Frankfurt am Main .
The laxative based on aloe and rheumatism , the composition of which was long considered a secret recipe and was only available to pharmacies in Frankfurt, was among other things in the rose pharmacy, which opened in 1826 as the ninth pharmacy in Frankfurt by pharmacist Georg Heinrich Engelhard and later by his son Karl Phillip Engelhard (1836–1924), from which the Engelhard Arzneimittel company later developed.
The remedies, also known as English pills ( Pil. Angelicae francofurtensis ), have been plagiarized many times, which is why King Ludwig of Bavaria , among others, was forced to forbid the sale as a penalty.
The original recipe, written on a small strip of paper, is now in a chip box that was once double-sealed in the Frankfurt City Archives. The box is accompanied by a note according to which it was officially opened on April 25, 1894 and the prescription was communicated to five Frankfurt pharmacists.
literature
- Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Stricker : The history of medicine and related sciences in the city of Frankfurt am Main. Kessler, 1847.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Schelenz: History of Pharmacy. Springer, 1904. p. 413
- ^ A b c d Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Stricker: The history of medicine and the related sciences in the city of Frankfurt am Main. Keßler, 1847. pp. 104ff.
- ^ Hermann Schelenz: History of Pharmacy. Springer, 1904. p. 506
- ^ Frankfurter Ober-Postamts-Zeitung , supplement to No. 148, May 30, 1838.
