Historical Pharmacopeias

Ongoing Research

“Historical Pharmacopeias” seeks to develop a collection of textual references to drugs and other medical preparations in a form that is accessible to medical researchers, biochemists, and medical historians.

Lead Collaborators: Mackenzie Cooley, Daniel Lord Smail, Gabriel Pizzorno

Currently hosted on DALME (Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe).

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Join us for “First Friday Pharmacopeias”

Conducting research on materia medica? Interested in HP? Have an odd pharmacopeia that you’d like to consult on? Might the platform be able to help you in your studies of related materials? Interested in contributing to the growing dataset?

We meet on the first Friday of the month at 9:30 am NY time via Zoom. Email mcooley@hamilton.edu for the link.

New Research

Read our Special Issue, published with History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals

Open Access Here

Check out this lecture at the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy for an overview!