Under the title: “Forms of Spanish Hospitals. 17th and 18th centuries”, the Publishing House of the University of Granada edits the first title of a collection that intends to release texts derived from magisterial conferences on Pharmacy History and Pharmaceutical Legislation. This volume, prepared by Professor José María Suñé Arbussá, appears in the Health Sciences Library of the UGR.
According to Professor José Luís Valverde, author of the presentation of this book, “We are pursuing several objectives. First of all, to pay homage in recognition of the professors who have contributed in a decisive way doing training and research on our subject and twin subjects. Secondly, to bring the life and work of professors from other universities to the students of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Granada. Thirdly, to have a collection of monographs to serve as a model to study and do research of important facets of our past”.
In this book Suñé, professor of Galenic Pharmacy in the Faculty of Pharmacy of Granada between 1959 and 1971 and professor of Pharmacy History and Legislation of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Barcelona between 1971 and 1998, carries out a paradigmatic compendium of one of the lines of work that he did not only started, but also managed to describe and fill one of the big gaps of our historical past in an essential field for the professional pharmaceutical exercise, Hospital Medicine.
Professor Suñé explains in this first volume of a series of magisterial lectures on History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Legislation, that the persons who prepare medicines have always reflected in writing the most usual and important formulas and even, in many occasions, the preparation techniques of such formulas.
The author of this volume goes back to the clay small boards of Nippur, in Mesopotamia, in 2000 before Christ, and revises those of Old Egypt, Greece and Rome, who wrote on parchments that have arrived to us in medieval copies, especially the schools of copyists and translators of Toledo, Salerno or Montecasino.
Reference: Prof José Luis Valverde López.
Dpt. Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology.
Phone numbers: 958 242326/ 958 243901.
E-mail: jlvalver@ugr.es
