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1511 ‘Concordia Apothecariorum Barchin’, [Collection of the Apothecaries
of Barcelona] was printed in Barcelona. It was the first edition of a
pharmacopoeia, written by the guild of apothecaries of Barcelona
and the first one published in Spain. The name of ‘Concordia’
referred to the unanimous agreement reached by the apothecaries of
Barcelona that the book might be used as the official work of
reference for their formulas, the so-called ‘compound’ medicaments.
The 1511 edition was followed by several works of a similar nature:
two also printed in Barcelona (in 1535 and 1587), two in Saragossa
(in 1546 and 1553) and two others in Valencia (in 1601-3 and 1698),
though under the title of ‘Officina Medicamentorum’ [Recipes for
making medicines].
Physicians and Surgeons Act (3 Hen. VIII, c.1 1)’ ...in the Parliament
holden at Westminster in the third year of the King’s most gracious
reign, amongst other things, for the avoiding of sorceries, witchcrafts,
and other inconveniences, it was enacted, that no person within the
city of London, nor within seven miles of the same, should take upon
him to exercise and occupy as physician or surgeon, except he be
first (examined, approved and admitted) by the Bishop of London
and the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, with the assistance of four
physicians or surgeons.’ For the rest of England the examination was
to be conducted by the bishop of each diocese in a similar manner.
Oxford and Cambridge universities retained their rights to issue
licences to practice (Warren. www.chronology.ndo.co.uk).
1518 Thomas Linacre founded the College of Physicians.
1525 Banckes Herbal is a compilation of herbal treatises from anonymous
sources that was published by Richard Banckes in 1525. It was the
first printed English herbal. It contains a copy of the famous
discourse on the virtues of rosemary sent by the Countess of
Hainault to her daughter Queen Philippa, wife of Edward I (1239–
1307). No mention of ADRs.
‘There was never no such disease known,’ as Giovanni da Vigo put it in
1525, ‘wherefore it was needful for the curation of this disease, to
search out new remedies. And to say the truth, the medicines lately
invented are better in this disease then the medicines of old writers.’
1526 The great herbal which gives perfect knowledge and understanding
of all manner of herbs [and] their gracious virtues which God
ordained for our prosperous welfare and health, for they heal [and]
cure all manner of diseases and sickenesses that fall or misfortune to