ABSTRACT
Herbs abounded in old-time drugstores. Pharmacists used them mostly to prepare various kinds of solutions and extracts that were then mixed with other ingredients to fill prescriptions. During the past few decades, these drugs in their handsome glass-labeled bottles gradually disappeared from the shelves of pharmacies, replaced largely by packages of prefabricated medicines. Some shops retained a few, along with fancy glass globes of colored water, for show, not for use.
