Drugs on the Page

Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Drugs on the Page
Edited by Matthew James Crawford and Joseph M. Gabriel
University of Pittsburgh Press
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Drugs on the Page explores practices of recording, organizing, and transmitting information about medicinal substances by artisans, colonial officials, indigenous peoples, and others who, unlike European pharmacists and physicians, rarely had a recognized role in the production of official texts and medicines.