Making and Marketing Medicine in Renaissance Florence

ISBN: 9789042031562 出版年：2011 页码：350 James Shaw Evelyn Welch Brill

What did you do when you fell ill in fifteenth-century Florence? How did you get the medicines that you needed at a price you could afford? What would you find when you entered an apothecary’s shop? This richly detailed study of the Speziale al Giglio in Florence provides surprising answers, demonstrating the continued importance of highly personalised medical practice late into the fifteenth century.