SC - Sugars for medicinal use

[LYN M PARKINSON]

Rawcliffe, Carole.  Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England. Alan
Sutton Publishing 	Ltd., United Kingdom, 1995.  ISBN 0 86299 598
1.  Contains humoural theory.

Chapter: The Apothecary, p. 150.  "The use of sugar in pharmacy had been
pioneered by the Arabs, who were thus able to extend the Greek
pharmacopoeia by mixing different combinations of herbs, spices and
animal products with a sweet-tasting powder or syrup base." 5

5.  M. Levey, _Early Arab Pharmacoloogy_, Leiden, 1973, pp. 52-3.  G. E.
Trease, 'The Spicers and Apothecaries of the Royal Household in the
Reigns of Henry III, Edward I and Edward II', Notingham Medieval Studies,
III, 1959, p. 22.


Regards,

Allison
allilyn at juno.com, Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands, Pittsburgh, PA
Kingdom of Aethelmearc

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