Article ID: CBB203353902

Solo "roba da matti"? Le sostanze di origine minerale della Farmacia del Manicomio di Siena (2019)

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The Mental Hospital of Siena opened on December 6, 1818 in the cloister of San Niccolò, but it was only in 1870 that, at the behest of the then director Carlo Livi and according to project of the architect Francesco Azzurri, it was rebuilt according to the needs of modern psychiatry, following the model of the village asylum with scattered pavilions. Among the various buildings, a Pharmacy in an independent area was also set up. The Pharmacy was completed in 1886 and it’s still very well preserved. Inside the precious antique showcases, vases of the medicinal drugs can still be found. A document recently discovered in the antiquarian market provides detailed information on the use of specific substances, some of which are of mineral origin, used throughout those years for the preparation of medicines by the Pharmacy of the Mental Hospital of Siena.

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Authors & Contributors
Cipriani, Giovanni
Vicentini, Chiara Beatrice
Faschi, Viviana
Valacchi, Maria Luisa
Gelati, Giacomo
Crawley, Alex
Concepts
Medicine
Hospitals and clinics
Pharmacy
Psychiatric hospitals
Therapeutics
Mental disorders and diseases
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Renaissance
20th century, early
18th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Australia
Padua (Italy)
England
Ohio (U.S.)
Turin (Italy)
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