Abstract

SANCHEZ RUIZ, Juan Francisco; TEJEDA ROSALES, María Elena; SANCHEZ TEJEDA, Juan Francisco  and  SANCHEZ TEJEDA, Manuel Guillermo. Pharmacy, medicine an herbolary in the florentine codex. Rev. mex. cienc. farm [online]. 2012, vol.43, n.3, pp.55-66. ISSN 1870-0195.

The Florentine Codex is a set of three volumes of the manuscript General History of the Things of New Spain, located in the Laurentian Library, in the city of Florence, ltaly. Of the 12 books of the Florentine Codex, books X and XI have sections dedicated to the preparation of remedies; descriptions of plants, minerals and animals with medicinal properties. The Florentine Codex describes panamacacas persons engaged to the. preparation and sa le of remedies. The manuscript describes several human diseases and the remedies against them. The remedies contain, in arder of importance: plants, minerals and animals.

Keywords : Prehispanic Pharmacy; Florentine Codex; Pharmacy's history.

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