Pharmacy moves to the West
Exposito super Antidotario Mesue, first published in Ferrara in March 1488, and then just weeks later in Bologna, is a late 14th century commentary by Christophorus Georgius de Honestis on an even older ‘Antidotarium’ – one ascribed to a Baghdad court physician, Mesuë the Younger, who died in 1015.
The latter’s work was a popular Muslim pharmacopoeia that has been described as “for centuries the…