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Experimental Therapeutics in the Renaissance

Experimental Therapeutics in the Renaissance

By Stata Norton

The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Vol.304:2 (2003)

Abstract: Detailed accounts of therapeutics at the time of the European Renaissance written by the participants have not survived in large numbers. One manuscript, dated 1562, was written by friars in a religious order in Italy dedicated to the care of the sick. Their remedies, methods of preparation, and uses were detailed by the friars and offer a glimpse into the beginnings of experimentation with drugs and rejection of tradition and authority in determining the effectiveness of a remedy. These developing concepts were combined in the manuscript with traditional treatments dating back through the Middle Ages to the medical methods of Greece and Rome.

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