Utrecht (Consules et senatores Reipublicae Ultrajectinae), Pharmacopoea Ultrajectina, Trajecti ad Rhenum: apud Theodorum ab Ackersdyck, Utrecht, 1656.
Pharmacopoea Ultrajectina. The first Utrecht pharmacist's manual printed in 1656
A pharmacopoea (spelling variations: pharmacop(o)iea) is a pharmaceutical manual listing medicinal drugs with their effects and directions for use. Several very old copies of pharmacist manuals published in Utrecht are available on request from the Utrecht city archives.
The first Pharmacopoea ever to be made in Utrecht is the Pharmacopoea Ultrajectina — a very small pocket sized booklet written in Latin and published in 1656.
Most of the ‘drug’ sources come directly from plants (roots, leaves, sap, flowers, bark and seed), animal parts, extracts and faeces (among some of the ingredients are crayfish eyes, honey, dried eel liver, or jaws of a snoek), minerals (sulphur, iron, mercury, ‘living’ chalk), flours (bone flour, comfrey root flour), and sea vegetables (sponges).
Pharmacopoea Ultrajectina with recipe for poppy syrup