title: Experimental therapeutics in the Renaissance.
abstract: Detailed accounts of therapeutics at the time of the European Renaissance written by the participants have not survived in large numbers. One manuscript, dated 1562, was written by friars in a religious order in Italy dedicated to the care of the sick. Their remedies, methods of preparation, and uses were detailed by the friars and offer a glimpse into the beginnings of experimentation with drugs and rejection of tradition and authority in determining the effectiveness of a remedy. These developing concepts were combined in the manuscript with traditional treatments dating back through the Middle Ages to the medical methods of Greece and Rome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas 66160, USA. snorton@kumc.edu
authors.forename: Stata
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Norton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D029001:Herbal Medicine / Q000266:history; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans