A Facsimile of the First Edition of the Pharmacopoeia Augustana; With Introductory Essays by Theodor Husemann

Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1927. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Limited Edition of 500 [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.25 inches by 12 inches. XLII, [2], 260. 6, [4] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Cover and corners have wear and soiling. Hollister Pharmaceutical Library Number One. Theodor Husemann was from 1881 to 1883 a member of the German Pharmacopoeia Commission, and he also worked as an expert in several murder trials. The Wisconsin Historical Society (officially the State Historical Society of Wisconsin) is simultaneously a state agency and a private membership organization whose purpose is to maintain, promote and spread knowledge relating to the history of North America, with an emphasis on the state of Wisconsin and the trans-Allegheny West. Founded in 1846 and chartered in 1853, it is the oldest historical society in the United States to receive continuous public funding. The society's headquarters are located in Madison, Wisconsin, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin?Madison. The first edition of the Augsburg Pharmacopeia is one of the earliest European pharmacopeias and the one that possibly exercised the greatest influence on later pharmacopeias. It no doubt influenced the compilers of the London Pharmacopeia, later editions of which, in turn, served as a direct guide to the early compilers of the United States Pharmacopeia. As is well known, three German cities introduced in the sixteenth century legal standards for compounded and simple medicaments. In 1535 Nuremberg introduced the pharmacopeia that had been compiled by Valerius Cordus and approved by Nuremberg physicians. About thirty years later Augsburg and Cologne followed almost simultaneously the example of Nuremberg. As the pharmacopeias of these two cities, indeed all later pharmacopeias, have been based on the "Dispensatory" of Cordus. Condition: Good.

Keywords: Medicine, Augsburg Pharmacopoeia, Facsimile Edition, Theodor Husemann, Joseph Schneider, Photographic Reproduction, Medicine, Medicinal Compounds, Drugs

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