Article ID: CBB671415306

Rimedi di origine animale nei Musei Romani di storia della farmacia e della medicina (2018)

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Samples of animal-based medicines and zootherapeutic resources such as leeches, bezoar, unicorn, and of course teriaca samples are kept in Rome’s Museums of Pharmacy. The alchemy laboratory recreated in Italy’s National Historic Museum of the Sanitary Arts contains animal specimens such as a crocodile and a small caiman, confirming that alchemists did use animal-based remedies. In the prescriptions written in the early 20th century by the Roman pharmacist Umberto Ramundo, we find ingredients such as cod liver oil, cochineal insect, spanish fly, and sophisticated substances as white whale, all animal based medications arguably used in pharmacies of the past.

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Authors & Contributors
Cipriani, Giovanni
Oszajca, Paulina
Cevolani, Enrico
Camana, Carla
Vicentini, Chiara Beatrice
Riva, Ernesto
Concepts
Pharmacy
Apothecaries
Therapeutics
Medicine
Pharmacology
Hospitals and clinics
Time Periods
Renaissance
Early modern
19th century
Medieval
18th century
17th century
Places
Italy
Bologna (Italy)
Europe
Padua (Italy)
Florence (Italy)
Venice (Italy)
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