Autore
Huguet-Termes, Teresa

Titolo
Standarising drug therapy in Renaissance Europe? The Florence (1499) and Nuremberg pharmacopoeia (1546)
Periodico
Medicina & Storia (Online)
Anno: 2008 - Volume: 8 - Fascicolo: 15 - Pagina iniziale: 77 - Pagina finale: 101

During the final decade of the fifteenth century and the first half of the sixteenth century, there were moves to harmonize pharmaceutical therapy in a number of areas of the Mediterranean and Central Europe. The most evident consequence was the appearance of books of compilations of simple and compound remedies specially selected from a wide range of earlier pharmacological literature. These compilations were set up as “standards” by the authorities concerned with public health in many states. In theory, apothecaries were obliged to follow these “official” instructions for preparing and dispensing drugs in order to ensure that the medicines prescribed by physicians were correctly made up and safe. The aim of this paper is to approach the question as to whether we can seriously associate these texts with the real practice of pharmacy and what was its real function, all in all, to throw some light on how great was the contribution of early modern pharmacopoeia to medical attitudes and medical care, and how much can they tell us about actual medical practice. This paper will deal with two early examples: (1499) and the (1546).



SICI: 1828-6224(2008)8:15<77:SDTIRE>2.0.ZU;2-P
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