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[MEDICINE LIST - ANTWERP - BROADSIDE].Biblio.com

Lijste der medicijnen. relatief tot het placcaet in dato 10 april als hier onder.

1684réf. ABC_50512Antwerp 1684. Ca. 51 x 37 cm. Rare and substantial 17th-century pharmaceutical broadside listing approximately 150 composite medicines required to be held in specified locations such as apothecaries or ships medicine chests. The document was formally concluded in the sessions of the Maandagsche Raad Monday Council of 28 February and 6 March 1684 and is signed by J.B. Greyns active in Antwerp civic administration in the early 1680s and Andries-Eugeen van Valckenisse 1630-1684 city secretary of Antwerp.The list provides a structured overview of officially recognised medicinal preparations reflecting the regulatory framework of early modern pharmacy. Remedies are grouped according to their form including electuaria herbal pastes mixed with honey or sugar pilulae pills sirupi syrups both laxative and non-laxative conservae preserved botanical substances opiata opium-based compounds such as laudanum emplastra and unguenta plasters and ointments as well as simplicia the unmixed raw materials of plant mineral or animal origin.Such official lists were essential instruments of medical standardisation ensuring the availability and uniformity of treatments in both civic and maritime contexts an important consideration in a major commercial hub such as Antwerp.The present work is associated with Van Valckenisse a notable but now largely overlooked scholar and administrator. Active during Antwerps intellectually vibrant yet economically shifting 17th century Van Valckenisse belonged to a distinguished family deeply embedded in civic religious and scholarly life. The document is co-signed by J.B. Greyns a master of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke Sint-Lucasgilde active in the citys civic milieu in the early 1680s.With the manuscript number "79" in the upper right corner. The lower right corner has been restored some damp staining and foxing in the margins. Otherwise in good condition. unknown