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A connection to apothecary can also be assumed with regard to the pharmaceutical section in the VMS
Quote:The year is 1241. The Staufer Emperor Frederick II (1194–1250) [Note: The customer for Ms. Plut. 73.16] issued a medical ordinance, thereby sealing the birth of the pharmacy profession. In it, he prescribed the separation of the medical and pharmaceutical professions and the use of a pharmacopoeia with recognized pharmaceutical rules on the quality, testing, storage, and labeling of medicines. In addition, the prices for medicines were set by law and the establishment of pharmacies was restricted to certain locations. Frederick II thus eliminated the rather unclear separation between the two health professions. In the centuries before, both professions had their roots in healing, priesthood, and shamanism. Another impetus for pharmacy came from alchemy. At that time, alchemists were trying to find the “great elixir,” a universal medicine that would have a healing, strengthening, and rejuvenating effect on the human body. Chemical apparatus and processes were used in this endeavor, which greatly enriched pharmacy. The fact that pharmacists surrounded themselves with such “mysterious” substances and devices gave them a certain aura of the inexplicable.
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A connection to apothecary can also be assumed with regard to the pharmaceutical section in the VMS