TY - JOUR
TI - Officially Prescribed. Prescriptions in Gdańsk Epidemic Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries
AU - Siek, Bartłomiej
TI - Officially Prescribed. Prescriptions in Gdańsk Epidemic Literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries
AB - In the epidemic-related texts printed by Gdańsk publishing houses in the 16th and 17th centuries, we can also find prescriptions. Over time, they gave way to short tax notes on anti-epidemic drugs attached to official forms. Ten publications from 1564–1663 were analyzed, and by comparing their contents, a list of 47 prescriptions and 144 drug names was compiled. The significant difference in the number of prescriptions and drugs was linked to the specificity of the Gdańsk pharmacy market in that period. On the example of works by Bartholomaeus Wagner, Jacob Schadius, Valerius Fidler, Johann Mathesius and prints signed by official city physicians, the evolution of anti-epidemic publications in Gdańsk was characterized and compared with the Gdańsk taxes then in force. The publications by Bartholomaeus Calckreuter and Gerbrand Hajo were cited as a context.
VL - 2023
IS - Volume 68, Issue 1
PY - 2023
SN - 0023-589X
C1 - 2657-4020
SP - 63
EP - 78
DO - 10.4467/0023589XKHNT.23.005.17408
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kwartalnik-historii-nauki-i-techniki/article/urzedowo-przepisane-recepty-w-gdanskiej-literaturze-epidemicznej-xvi-i-xvii-w
KW - Early Modern Gdańsk
KW - epidemic literature
KW - prescriptions
KW - history of medicine