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Title: | An outline history of pharmacy : part 2 : Renaissance to twentieth century |
Authors: | Cassar, Paul |
Keywords: | Pharmacy -- History Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- History Renaissance -- Miscellanea Pharmaceutical industry -- History |
Issue Date: | 1987-04 |
Publisher: | Chamber of Pharmacists |
Citation: | Cassar, P. (1987). An outline history of pharmacy : part 2 : Renaissance to twentieth century. The Pharmacist, 15, 21-35. |
Abstract: | In the field of pharmacy, the School of Salerno produced the Antidotarium parvum by Nicolas of Salerno which is a collection of formulae, probably compiled in the eleventh century. It contains a reference to the ingredients that were employed to produce an early form of surgical anaesthesia. This was the spongia somnifera consisting of a mixture, in water, of opium, mandrake and henbane. A rag was soaked in it and applied to the nostrils of the patient to put him to sleep and render him insensitive to the pain of surgical operations. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/48257 |
Appears in Collections: | The Pharmacist, Issue 15 The Pharmacist, Issue 15 |
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