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Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World

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Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World - Crawford, Matthew James (Editor), and Gabriel, Joseph M. (Editor)
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In the early modern Atlantic World, pharmacopoeias-official lists of medicaments and medicinal preparations published by municipal, national, or imperial governments-organized the world of healing goods, giving rise to new and valuable medical commodities such as cinchona bark, guaiacum, and ipecac. Pharmacopoeias and related texts, developed by governments and official medical bodies as a means to standardize therapeutic practice, were particularly important to scientific and colonial enterprises. They served, in part, as ...

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Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World 2019, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh PA

ISBN-13: 9780822945628

Hardcover