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. In this, paper published in 2008, Teresa Huguet-Termes aims to demonstrate the persistence of Arabic drugs and recipes through the content of three of these handbooks between 1499 and 1618.

Read More: Islamic Pharmacology and Pharmacy in the Latin West, by Teresa Huguet-Termes