Making and marketing medicine in Renaissance Florence
By: James Shaw and Evelyn Welch
Contributors: Welch, Evelyn S., 1959-
Series: Wellcome series in the history of medicine; Clio medica -- 89; Wellcome series in the history of medicine; Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) -- 89.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9789042031562; 9789042031579
Subjects: Pharmaceutical Preparations; Drug Prescriptions; Drugstores; History, 15th Century; Marketing; Public health; History, 16th Century; Pharmacies; History
Description: A study of the Speziale al Giglio apothecary shop in fifteenth-century Florence, Italy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-340) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one: selling health. The shop and the city ; Keeping shop; title: Part two: customers and credit. People and their purchases ; Recovering debts; title: Part three: products. Wax ; Sugar and spices ; Medicines.