Open AccessMedicines from the first pharmacopoeia listed on the apothecary majolica vessels from the Mateusz B. Grabowski collection at the Museum of Pharmacy in Kraków
Author(s) -
Iwona Dymarczyk
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
zeszyty naukowe uniwersytetu jagiellońskiego. opuscula musealia/opuscula musealia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2084-3852
pISSN - 0239-9989
DOI - 10.4467/20843852.om.20.009.13748
Subject(s) - apothecary , pharmacopoeia , pharmacy , apothecaries' system , traditional medicine , art , precept , ancient history , medicine , classics , history , law , family medicine , alternative medicine , political science , pathology
This article concerns medicinal preparations from the first European pharmacopoeia listed on the cartouches of apothecary majolica vessels (16th‒18th century) from the Grabowski collection at the Museum of Pharmacy in Kraków. The materials for comparison are three 16th-century works: Ricettario Fiorentino (1550), Pharmacopoea by J. Placotomus (1560) and Dispensatorium by V. Cordus (1563). The inscriptions on the apothecary jars for which they were meant comprise greatly important information carriers about medicine in the old days. Their deciphering can also be helpful when dating these objects.