A Jewish physician, probably born in Apulia, southern Italy, author of the Compendium aromatiorum, Bologna, (1488), edited in Castilian translation as Compendio de los boticarios, Valladolid (1515), a famous form and manuscript book of materia medica, with formulas that came from classical Greco-Roman antiquity and containing prescriptions advised by the Arabs since the century XI. Together with Matteo Silvatico they became the greatest disciples of Nicolò Salernitano, who became dedicated to the pharmaceutical field, studying and experimenting with thousands of types of herbs in the gardens of Minerva.
He was physician to the prince of Taranto, Giovanni Antonio di Balso Orsino, in the mid-fifteenth century and probably died in Bologna. His colleague Matteo Silvatico wrote the famous Dizionario dei Semplici, the most complete work on pharmacology of the 12th century, while he wrote the Compendio degli Aromatari, the same as the Compendio dos apothecaries, guided by his master, which would become the book a must-have for the good pharmacist for many years to come, with innumerable editions of the Latin version (1515) by Alonso Rodríguez de Everything. At that time aromatary meant the professional pharmacy or apothecary, a trader who was dedicated to manufacturing and selling compounds that benefited human health.
His work had the didactic intention of attending and helping aspiring apothecaries. To be considered approved as a new professional, the author proposed them a long questionnaire that they should answer correctly, according to the Libro de Messue. In this work, he was also concerned with instructing them in weights and measures used in pharmacy and included mnemonic dodecasyllables about their values. He made milks, compounds and preserves, names of plants, their harvest and medicinal preparation. In the last part, an extensive list of elements necessary for an apothecary was included.
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