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Disneyland (NAPS) - While pharmaceuticals today are a booming business, a single apothecary in the Sung Dy nasty of China - 3,000 years ago - sold $1,000 worth of drugs a day! For more than 20,000 years, men have been using plants, roots and herbs for healing. This year's visitor to Disneyland can travel back through the years for a close up look at medical progress from nostrums and hexes to neomycin and hydrocorti sone. The mythical journey is made possible by a dramatic display arranged by The Up john Company in conjunction with its Disneyland drugstore, an apothecary shop redolent of the late 19th century. The ancients' knowledge about the curative-powers of certain plants didn't prevent the Shaman (physician, magi cian, priest, statesman and troubador of ages past) from also using fetishes, amulets and talismans as "cures." The Upjohn display, for example, includes symbolic figurines which were placed in the hands of primitive idols to "cure" illness 2,000 years ago. Drawings and paintings in the exhibit illustrate sta tuaries and symbols of physi cal phenomena which were regarded as infallible cure-alls by ancient man in Western Europe, Egypt, Mesopotamia and South America. The Egyptians knew of at least one-third of all the med ical substances known today - from opium to gentian to castor oil. However, they ig nored their specific uses and collected drugs merely as a child collect toys. The Disneyland display views the birth of "modern" medicine through the eyes of Hippocrates, the Greek physi cian who originated the oath still taken by today's doctors. In Roman times, patients were charged whatever they could be persuaded to pay by physicians who made drugs from secret formulas. On the other hand, a hospital in 12th-century Baghdad fed and treated all patients with out charge. Moreover, Dr. Felix Matti-ibanez says in his book "The Epic of Medicine" that these patients, when dis charged, were often provided with money so that they didn't have to go to work immediately! Tenth century Moslems es tablished the first apothecary shops. Adorned with blue-til ed fountains, these establish ments became centers for gos sip, exchange of alchemic lore, and horoscope readings. Art lovers will tell you that Arabian pharmacies contri buted to aesthetics through their exquisite ceramic jars and bottles. Many of the weird potions concocted by Arabian alchemists and exper imenters in Spain are shown in Upjohn's Disneyland dis play. The display devotes much space to European medicine in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - a transitional period, when man transferred the blame for his ills from demons to religious figures. Also, he began to attribute cures for some illnesses to beneficial plants and minerals Pharmacy Through The Ages instead of votive figures. Even wonder where the pharmacist's familiar sign "Rx" comes from? It's a medieval symbol meaning "to take," and inaugurated the use of minerals in medical practice. Numerous other medical symbols are illustrat ed, designating earth sub stances believed to possess 1 curative powers. The Upjohn display gives due credit to the immense contributions to medicine made by such medieval and Renaissance figures as Leon ardo da Vinci, Paracelsus, Andreas Vesalius and Am broise Pare.But weird reme dies continued into the 17th century and beyond. The "First London Pharma copeia," an "official" book issued in 1618, described about 1,900 remedies. These included worms, dried vipers, fox's lungs, oil of ants and wolves. The second edition listed the moss from the skull NOW OPEN LEMON TREE INN 111 W. FRANKLIN ST. SPECIALIZING IN PRIME BEEF - SPAGHETTI ? PIZZA AND FEATURING SPECIAL LUNCHEONS AND SALADS Hours: MONDAY THRU THURSDAY 10 A.M. To 9:30 P.M. Friday & Saturday 10 A.M. Til 11 P.M. 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During the Age of Enlight enment, the successful Lon don practitioner's office fee was generally a guinea, two guineas for a house-call, a half guinea for a prescription writ ten in the coffeehouse with out seeing the patient. So great was this century's faith in drugs that a large medicine spoon was a common item in the bride's trousseau. The first drugstore in the U. S. was founded in Philadel phia in 1729 by an Irish Renovating Drought-Damaged Lawns Many lawns look positively pock-marked with dried areas because of the drought and the restrictions onwaterlng. These lawns should be renovated this tall. First, a fertilizer application Is In order. This often works such wonders that no other treatment Is necessary. If an Inorganic (chemical) ferti lizer Is used, follow Immedi ately with water. Next, try to rent one of the vertical-cutting machines de signed tor the purpose of mak ing shallow cuts Into the soli. If this Is Impossible, then It will be necessary to loosen the soli surface of any bare areas In some other fashion. Spade and rake might be used in large bare places, while a thorough raking with a steel rake may do for small spots which are minus grass. Walt to plant seed until there has been a heavy, penetrating rain. Then cut the existing grass as short as you can so its blades do not shade emerging seedlings. Now plant the seed. There Is no substitute for con stant moisture after grass seed has been sown so, unless rains are frequent, watering will be needed. This Is especially true when the wind Is high or the sun bright. On such days It may be necessary to water the seedbed three times. Allow the lawn to grow during the time the seedlings are sprouting. This will take be tween two and three weeks. Af ter that mowing can be resumed. In areas where bluegrass usually Is grown, lawns may be successfully renovated and new seed sown until October 15. When renovating is done In fall, the gardener can look for ward to a beautiful lawn like the one In the picture by spring. Pat ? How much do you weigh? Mike ? One hundred and seventy-five pounds. P*t ? Ya must* got weigh ed wid yer coat on. Mike ? An' I did not. I held it in me arms all the time. immigrant, Christopher Mar shall. For a hundred years, the Marshall Apothecary was an important drug-manufact uring concern and training school for apprentice pharma cists. During the American Revolution, the store was an important supply depot for the Continental Army. Marshall's had little in common with the modern drugstore. As the Upjohn dis play demonstrates, a scienti fic revolution was needed to convert alchemy into chemis try and the craft of medicine to the science of healing. The Disneyland exhibit's primary message: The first world-wide pooling of phar maceutical knowledge led di rectly to development of to day's wonder drugs. Viewpoint by Jesse Helms Times May Be Even Worse These are not the best of all times for the Raleigh School Board, and certainly not (or the frustrated administrators of the city's school system. But If petty federal tyranny Is allowed to proceed along Its present course, the times a head may be even worse for "1?6al school people? In Ral eigh, and everywhere else. The Raleigh situation sup plies a fairly typical example of how federal bureaucracy functions. Indeed, It Is but another eloquent answer to those arrogant advocates of "federal aid to education" who, In other years, assured the public that there was no cause to fear that federal controls would be the travel ling companions of federal dollars. And anyone who dared to voice a warning to the contrary was dismissed as a "rlghtwlng extremist". All who are even vaguely familiar with the Raleigh school system are aware that the schools of this city are anything but segregated. Not only has there been complete freedom of choice for pupils and their parents as to where children will go to school; Negro children have been en couraged to go to schools previously classified as "white". And they have gone, and are going, In Increasing numbers. There has been no complaint from Negro par ents or children that they have been denied their " rights". Now the Raleigh School Board has proposed a plan designed to Increase Negro enrollment at predominantly white schools by an additional 3,000. One would think that such a plan would warm the heart of even the most lnte gratlon-minded federal bur eaucrat. Not so. The Raleigh plan has been denied approval, and Raleigh officials must go to Washington, hat In hand, to plead with their federal masters not to cut of Raleigh's share of that so-called "free money from Washington". At some time, in some way, the Congress Is going to have to quit playing politics Jtod take a look at what such federal tryanny Is doing to the schools of the nation. Until fairly recent weeks, the bureau cratic pressures were being applied solely to the South. Now tliere are signs that they may spread to other sections of the country. It Is too much to hope that much will tie done before the November elections ?that would anger the voters In the North and Midwest. The plan, therefore, will be, no doubt, to wait until the votes are counted. The oddity of it all Is that , even the Supreme Court has never demanded compulsory Integration; it has simply out lawed compulsory segrega tion. The Court has said that no child may be discriminat ed against by reason vt his race. There certainly is no authority, either legislative or Judicial, for faceless bur eaucrats to make arbitrary Judgments about what they Imagine to be the "desired" percentage of race-mixing In any school. Yet that is pre cisely what has been done in the case of the Raleigh School system? and In the cases of countless other school systems throughout the South. Any man's Ideas about in tegration or segregation to one side, It is Impossible to con ceive of a more workable and equitable system of pupil as signment than the freedom of-cholce philosophy which has been the North Carolina policy since the 1954 Supreme Court decision. Yet the fed eral government has lifted Its nose In discontent at such a plan ? because It has not produced a degree of Inte gration satisfactory to the bureaucrats. No doubt it was a surprise to officials In Washington to discover that many Negro children, on the record, sim ply do not want to Integrate. There are many cases, In fact, In which Negro students have tried Integrated schools and, after a few months or a year, have requested re assignment to Negro schools. Washington's objection to this, it seems to us, constitutes an arrogant disregard of the rights of the Negro students and their parents. But that's the way it goes when centralized govern ment takes over the rights and authorities and Judgments of state and local govern ment. And the most depres sing part of it all involves the time lost by state and local education officials which could otherwise be devoted -to improving and expanding their schools. But who In Washington cares about ed ucation? Integration Is what matters- -and all that matters ?to the federal masters. They Intend that both Negroes and whites shall have it, whether or not they want it, at any cost--and that we shall pay for it with our own dollars. And that is really what Is meant? and intended? by "federal aid to education". 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