Pharmaceutical science in the 16th and 17th centuries. Pharmaceutical science improved markedly in the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1546 the first pharmacopoeia, or collected list of drugs and medicinal chemicals with directions for making pharmaceutical preparations, appeared in Nürnberg, Ger.Previous to this time, medical preparations had varied in concentration and even in constituents. More @Wikipedia
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