DOCUMENTARY SOURCES WITHIN THE PATRIMONY OF THE MUSEUM COLLECTION OF THE FACULTY OF PHARMACY FROM
BUCHAREST REGARDING MATERIA MEDICA.
EMILIA STANCU
“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of
Pharmacy, Traian Vuia, 6, 020956, Bucharest, Romania
*corresponding author: emi_stancu@yahoo.com


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Abstract:

Materia Medica represents the totality of the curatives that were used in the last century’s pharmacology. It can be reconstructed by studying the direct sources: Codex, Dispensatories, and Pharmacopoeias but also by the assessment of the indirect sources that are resulted from the organizational-administrative activities: inventories, sale-purchase documents, pharmaceutical taxes [3], vessels and labeled furniture pieces.
The most significant aspects of pharmaceutical education and practice in Romania can be illustrated by means of patrimony of the Collection of Pharmacy History “Lecturer PhD. Pharm. Zisi Fârşirotu” within the Faculty of Pharmacy from Bucharest. The present paper examines the pharmaceutical vessels from the point of view of the information provided regarding Materia Medica. In the Collection there are 122 pharmaceutical vessels dating from the XIXth and XXth centuries. They are made from various materials: wood, porcelain, glass and enameled ceramics being accomplished in autochthonous and abroad studios. All of them bear “signatures” that, as labels, mention the content of these recipients. That is why the pharmaceutical vessels are constituted as a documentary important source for the identification of the curatives that were used, along the time, in pharmacology.

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