#history of pharmacy

• ab antiquo — The classical and correct Latin form for 'from ancient times' or 'since antiquity'. In toxicology, pharmacognosy, and medical ethics, it is used to emphasize that certain therapeutic effects, prohibitions (e.g., using poisons for political or medical purposes), or professional oaths have been in force and respected since the earliest times of human civilization.
• abanos — A precious, highly exotic, dense, and hard wood, usually black, obtained from several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros (family Ebenaceae). In pharmacognosy and the history of pharmacy, extracts, shavings, and powder from ebony wood or its bark were historically used in preparing astringent and purifying remedies, while the wood itself was used to manufacture pharmaceutical mortars resistant to chemical corrosion.