LOS FÁRMACOS DE LA SCALA

BEZOAR

The Bezoar stone_ A princely antidote, The Távora Sequeira Pinto Collection_Oporto.

Fossils as Drugs_ pharmaceutical palaeontology.

CASCARILLA

The pharmacy of the Benedictine monks_ The use of medicinal plants in Northeast Brazil during the nineteenth century (1823–1829).

CINNABAR

History of Cinnabar as drug, the natural substance and the synthetic product.

GAMBOE

Fighting fire with fire_ Poisonous Chinese herbal medicine for cancer therapy.

Garcinia bark exudates – an important phytochemical source.

Interaction in Chemistry and Medicine between India and Europe in 18th and 19th centuries.

MECHOACAN

Palabras americanas en la ciencia europea del XVI.

RESINA DE GUAIACO

Isolation and characterization of a guaiaconic acid and the nature of guaiacum blue.

The constituents of Guaiacum Resin.

RESINA DE SCAMONIA

SCAMMONIN III-VI, RESIN GLYCOSIDES OF CONVOLVULUS SCAMMONIA.

PAPERS SCALA PROJECT

New insights into the composition of historical remedies and pharmaceutical formulations_ the identification of natural resins and balsams by gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric investigations.

Tradition and Renovation in the ancient drugs of the Spezieria di Santa Maria della Scala (Rome). Between Scientific Knowledge and Magical Thought.

X-ray powder diffraction of mineral pigments and medicines from the 17th century pharmacy (Spezieria) Santa Maria della Scala in Rome, Italy.