PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Stata Norton TI - Experimental Therapeutics in the Renaissance AID - 10.1124/jpet.102.042291 DP - 2003 Feb 01 TA - Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics PG - 489--492 VI - 304 IP - 2 4099 - http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/304/2/489.short 4100 - http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/304/2/489.full SO - J Pharmacol Exp Ther2003 Feb 01; 304 AB - Detailed accounts of therapeutics at the time of the European Renaissance written by the participants have not survived in large numbers. One manuscript, dated 1562, was written by friars in a religious order in Italy dedicated to the care of the sick. Their remedies, methods of preparation, and uses were detailed by the friars and offer a glimpse into the beginnings of experimentation with drugs and rejection of tradition and authority in determining the effectiveness of a remedy. These developing concepts were combined in the manuscript with traditional treatments dating back through the Middle Ages to the medical methods of Greece and Rome. The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics