Schedula Romana

Schedula Romana
AuthorPietro Paolo Puccerini
LanguageItalian
SubjectMedicine
Publication date
1649
Publication placeItaly

The Schedula Romana was a pharmaceutical handbill[1] published in 1649.[2] Generally assumed to have been designed after the knowledge of the cinchona bark properties brought from South America by Spanish Jesuit Juan de Lugo, the Schedula Romana is considered to be an early example of an efficient antimalarial recipe.[3] The Schedula gives instructions on proper dosages and application of the cinchona bark.[4] The doses recommended are likely to have been established by trial and error, and they are assumed to be relied on results obtained using the various recipes proposed by Roman apothecaries.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Holger Maehle, Andreas (1999). Drugs on Trial: Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutic Innovation in the ... Rodopi. ISBN 9042007931. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  2. ^ Lane Furdell, Elizabeth (2001). The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts. University Rochester Press. ISBN 9781580460514.
  3. ^ a b "Evaluation of Cinchona bark in the 17th and 18th centuries". Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  4. ^ "The Jesuit's Bark". Retrieved 30 November 2016.