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oai:doaj.org/article:f1bcf45fe4e44ec4aba14c7c88461427

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10.12795/hid.2013.i40.03

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The failed recetary of a Rector of the University of Valladolid in the 16th century

Abstract

The present paper aims to offer an edition and study of some pres- criptions included in a sixteenth-century lawsuit litigated in the Real Chancillería of Valladolid. María of Ayala, the widow of the apothecary Francisco of Madrid, sued Félix Manzanedo, chancellor of the University of Valladolid and magistrate in the aforesaid court, because he had failed to pay his long-standing debt to the apothecary, and she substantiated her claim with the prescriptions his deceased husband kept. By studying these prescriptions it becomes possible to ascertain the names of two of Valladolid’s most prestigious doctors in the mid-sixteenth century: Juan of Peñaranda and Pedro Enríquez. They give us also an insight into the knowledge that both the doctors and the apothecary had of the active ingredient of medications and into their ability to prepare and combine those ingredients in their efforts to create effective treatments.

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