Projects and Prospects – Virtual Symposium and General Assembly
April 23-24, 2021
Abstracts
Program (Time Middle European Summer Time)
| Friday April 23 | Session A: Drugs and Prescriptions | |
| 15.30 | A1 | Terminological changes of essential oils of selected pharmacopoeias – Z. Takáts, N. Papp, T. Ambrus, Pecs, Hungary/Brno, Czech Republic |
| 16.00 | A2 | A women’s job: getting science in each household (19-20th ct.) – G. Bovone, Italy |
| 16.30 | A3 | Apothecaries, charlatans and the manufacturing spectacle. Legal and illegal theriac prescriptions and other antidotes in Bologna in the early modern period – P. Oszajca, Winterthur, Switzerland |
| 17.00 | A4 | Prescriptions of narcotics and toxic substances in German-speaking countries from the 18th until the 20th century. A contribution to the history of drug safety – K. Grothusheitkamp, Marburg, Germany |
| 18.00 | Extended Executive Committee Meeting/General Assembly | |
| Highlight Presentations | ||
| 20.00 | H1 | New insights into ancient Egyptian medical prescriptions – Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening, University of Marburg, Germany |
| 20.45 | H2 | Imaging of the Syriac Galen palimpsest with powerful X-rays – Prof. Dr. Uwe Bergmann, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA |
| Saturday April 24, 2021 | Session B: Traditional Pharmaceuticals | |
| 9.30 | B1 | A historical report on preparing sustained release dosage forms for addicts in Medieval Persia, 16th c. AD – S. Soleymani, A. Zargaran, Tehran, Iran |
| 10.00 | B2 | Ancient remedies against parasitic nematodes: an investigation on codices and pharmacopoeias – C. B. Vicentini, M. Chicca, M. Pezzi, Ferrara, Italy |
| 10.30 | B3 | Remedies to seasickness: suggestions from ancient codices, herbals, and pharmacopeias – B. M. Giusto, M. L. Giusto, C. B. Vicentini, Ferrara, Italy |
| Session C: Traditional and Colonial Pharmacy | ||
| 11.30 | C1 | A (very) brief history of Tibetan traditional medicine – F. Eidam-Weber, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 12.00 | C2 | Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706): Natural and medical knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe – S. Kroupa, London, UK |
| 12.30 | C3 | Penal hospital pharmacy in the penal colony in Guyana – D. Braguer, Allauch, France |
| Session D: Pharmacy and Pharmacists | ||
| 14.00 | D1 | Francis Bernard (1628-1698): A seventeenth-century apothecary and physician – E. Betz, St. Andrews, UK |
| 14.30 | D2 | Establishment and activity of pharmacology department of Belarusian state medical university during 1922-1940 – A.V. Shalukhina, N.A. Bizunok, V.F. Sosonkina, Belarus |
| 15.00 | D3 | The new academic degree for pharmacists during the Napoleonic Italian republic (1802-1805) – E. Cevolani, Bologna, Italy/Madrid, Spain |
| Session E: Pharmaceutical Literature | ||
| 16.00 | E1 | Using optical character recognition for the transcription of a handwritten herbal – M. Mönnich, Tübingen/Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 16.30 | E2 | Some publications from Romanian pharmaceutical literature from XIX-XXth centuries – L.-M. Stanescu, Bucharest, Romania |
| 17.00 | E3 | What kind of stories bookplates tell. Some viewpoints in the mirror of the historical library of Swiss pharmacy – S. Ruppen, Berne, Switzerland |
| 17.30 | E4 | „A difficult weapon to confiscate“. Ethical implications of military human enhancement reflected through the science fiction genre – F. Vongehr, Marburg, Germany |
