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Veiga‐Castelli, Luciana C.; Cruz, Athamy Sarah P.; Inácio, Moisés Morais; Castelli, Erick C.; Donadi, Eduardo Antônio

doi:10.1016/j.humimm.2012.07.215

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“…First, a list of the 150 vases and their inscriptions was drafted. These inscriptions were then analysed and interpreted with the aid of pharmacopoeias, medical texts, and almanacs published between the XV and the XIX centuries [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][22][23][24][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][64][65][66][67][68][70][71][72]75,77,78,[285][286][287][288][289][290][291][292][293].…”

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Ca’ Granda, Hortus simplicium: Restoring an Ancient Medicinal Garden of XV–XIX Century in Milan (Italy)

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This work is based on the study of 150 majolica vases dated back to the mid XVII century that once preserved medicinal remedies prepared in the ancient Pharmacy annexed to the Ospedale Maggiore Ca’ Granda in Milan (Lombardy, Italy). The Hortus simplicium was created in 1641 as a source of plant-based ingredients for those remedies. The main objective of the present work is to lay the knowledge base for the restoration of the ancient Garden for educational and informative purposes. Therefore, the following complementary phases were carried out: (i) the analysis of the inscriptions on the jars, along with the survey on historical medical texts, allowing for the positive identification of the plant ingredients of the remedies and their ancient use as medicines; (ii) the bibliographic research in modern pharmacological literature in order to validate or refute the historical uses; (iii) the realization of the checklist of plants potentially present in cultivation at the ancient Garden, concurrently with the comparison with the results of a previous in situ archaeobotanical study concerning pollen grains. For the species selection, considerations were made also regarding drug amounts in the remedies and pedoclimatic conditions of the study area. Out of the 150 vases, 108 contained plant-based remedies, corresponding to 148 taxa. The remedies mainly treated gastrointestinal and respiratory disorders. At least one of the medicinal uses was validated in scientific literature for 112 out of the 148 examined species. Finally, a checklist of 40 taxa, presumably hosted in the Hortus simplicium, was assembled.

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