Safeguards of the Craft

Each compound weighed to the grain upon brass scales; no estimation is ever admitted into the dispensary.

Latin nomenclature ensures no remedy is confounded, regardless of the mother tongue of the apothecary.

Embossed ridges and the skull-mark identify each poison by touch alone, even in deepest shadow.

Every vessel bears its full peril inscribed upon paper; silence is the truest and most fatal poison.