This is a room with an area of nearly 20 square meters, with three double-opening glass windows on each side. The interior decoration is very simple, with white walls and gray floors. In the middle of the room is a large and thick white wooden table, which takes up a third of the room. The wooden table was covered with all kinds of large glassware. If Madam Maria hadn't been there, Claude would have almost thought he had entered a chemical laboratory in his previous life.
On the right side of the room is a row of 40 centimeter-deep black wooden cabinets against the wall. This cabinet is a bit like a medicine shop cabinet, with drawers on top. The drawers are labeled, presumably for holding medicinal materials. There is a two-meter-long pool in the upper left corner of the room, with thin white marble sheets attached to it. Claude discovered that there was a copper water faucet on the pool. It seemed that Madam Maria had spent a lot of money to bring in tap water for her pharmaceutical laboratory.
"Madam, this is your pharmaceutical laboratory" Claude asked.
"This is just part of it. The glassware in this room is mainly used for refining and synthesizing medicines. Sometimes I also use it to do some interesting experiments. There is also a room inside. For us pharmacists, that room is the only one. is the most important, because all medicinal materials must be processed before they can be refined into synthetic medicines, so the medicinal materials processing room is equivalent to a simple alchemy magic array. Come and take a look."
Mrs. Maria walked to the end of the room and opened the white wooden door.
Claude followed and took a look. The area and decoration of the room inside were almost the same as the one outside. The difference was that this room was a little messy, or it could be said to be filled with various items and appliances. Except for some of these appliances, they were made of black iron. Except for glass and glass products, most of the rest are made of brass, and many of them are floor-standing like a large piece of furniture, making the whole room look like a production workshop.
"Pharmacology originated from the alchemy of magicians. The earliest healing potions were refined and synthesized by magicians in the alchemy magic array. However, these healing potions were only provided to nobles, and civilians could not enjoy this service. Even if they are sick, they can only pick some herbs and take them based on their experience. In this way, the treatment effect is not good and slow, and sometimes the condition will be aggravated.
It is said that when a plague broke out later, magicians could not refine so many healing potions in the alchemical magic talisman, so they reversed the steps in the alchemical magic talisman and taught civilians to perform preliminary low-level processing of the medicinal materials before boiling them into potions. for self-rescue. This was the most important moment in the development of pharmacy and the real beginning of modern pharmacy.
In a sense, it was the alchemy of magicians that created the modern discipline of pharmacy. In the beginning, almost all disease treatment recipes were obtained from magicians' alchemical experiments, such as the formulas of primary medicines such as healing potions and detoxification potions.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that magicians don't pay attention to these potion formulas. Their eyes have never fallen on civilians.
The senior pharmacists who obtained these formulas are the most respectable people. Although they do not know magic and do not know any alchemical magic talismans, they still work hard to understand and explore, and follow the occasional guidance step by step. In turn, the processing of medicinal materials and the refining and synthesis of pharmaceuticals have been gradually improved over the long years.
Although the potions they prepared were not as perfect as those made by magicians in the alchemy magic array, and even had only a fraction or a tenth of the therapeutic effect of those magic potions, it was good news to the majority of civilians. , because they already have their own healing potions and no longer need to worry about being injured. "
Mrs. Maria introduced the origin of pharmacy to Claude in a very proud tone: "The room you see now is the latest medicinal material processing center of pharmacy. For us pharmacists, this room is ours." Alchemical magic talisman array.”
It seems that Mrs. Maria is very proud of her status as a mid-level pharmacist. She led Claude slowly past each piece of equipment and introduced him to the name and purpose of the equipment: "This is a separation tank, which mainly relies on rapid rotation to separate impurities in medicinal materials. This is a crusher, Large medicinal herbs and medicinal herbs with mineral properties can be placed inside to be chopped and stirred into powder.
This is the water storage tank and this is the distribution