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Islamic Pharmacology and Pharmacy in the Latin West: An Approach to Early Pharmacopoeias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2008

Teresa Huguet-Termes
Teresa Huguet-Termes*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Historia de la Ciencia, Institución Milá y Fontanals (IMF-CSIC), C. Egipcíaques 15, 08001 Barcelona, Spain
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Email: thuguet@bicat.csic.es
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Abstract

During the final decade of the 15th century and the first half of the 16th 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 demonstrate the persistence of Arabic drugs and recipes through the content of three of these handbooks between 1499 and 1618.

Type
Focus: Pharmacy in Islam
Information
European Review , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , May 2008 , pp. 229 - 239
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 2008

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