An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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KRAMER, Samuel Noah

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First pharmacopeia in man's recorded history.

Am. J. Pharm. Sci. Support. Public Health, 126, 76–84, 1954.

The most ancient testimony concerning the opium poppy found to date was inscribed in cuneiform script on a small white clay tablet at the end of the third millennium BC. This tablet was discovered in 1954 during excavations at Nippur, and is currently kept at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Deciphered by Samuel Noah Kramer and Martin Leve, it is considered to be the most ancient pharmacopoeia in existence.[7(Wikipedia article on History of General Anesthesia, accessed 3-2020).



Subjects: ANCIENT MEDICINE › Mesopotamia, ANESTHESIA › Opiates, PHARMACOLOGY › Pharmacopeias