1st Edition
Pharmacopoeias and Related Literature in Britain and America, 1618–1847
Edited By David L. Cohen
Copyright 2001
308 Pages
by
Routledge
Collected in this volume are the author’s historical and bibliographical studies of what may be described as the British and American literature of pharmacotherapeutics. The practitioner of medicine in the period covered was intimately concerned with the selection, compounding, dispensing and operation of the materia medica. Medical theories, etiology and nosology were left to the academics,... Read more
Contents: The Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia; The Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia; Expunctum est Mithridatium; The Edinburgh Dispensatories; The influence of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia and the Edinburgh Dispensatories; A note on pharmaceutical literature and the introduction of the new chemical nomenclature; The spread and influence of British pharmacopoeial and related literature; America's pre-pharmacopoeial literature; The Boston editions of Nicholas Culpeper; 'Zum Dienst des gemeinen Mannes, insonderheit für die Landleute'. The domestic and veterinary medicine books printed in colonial North America and the United States in the German language; Diegendesch's Nachrichters Rossartzneybüchlein; The folk medicine of the Pennsylvania Dutch; The New York Hospital and its pharmacopoeia; Agenda; Index.
Biography
David L. Cohen
'... a wealth of detail...' Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada '... detailed and interesting... it is striking how many of the questions raised by these articles remain unresolved. Moreover, in the issues of readership, reception, and interpretation that they implicitly present, these articles offer a further substantial challenge which historians of medicine need to face.' Social History of Medicine '... Cowen has done excellent work... an invaluable resource for the history of pharmacy.' Metascience '... an informative collection... a thirty-page bibliography, twelve title-page reproductions and seven distribution maps. Additionally, there is a fourteen-page table that charts the publication of British pharmacopoeial literature (1677-1871) in the Low Countries, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Portugal, North America, Spain, Austria, India and Madagascar. These lists and illustrations alone make he book an excellent reference work...' British Journal for the History of Science '... David Cowen has done much to enrich and [...] legitimize the history of pharmacy...' Pharmacy in History '... for the historiography of an often neglected field, the vast and painstaking account of sources that form a major component of this book is invaluable.' Medical History
