EARLY ARABIC PHARMACOLOGY
Iraq
10th Century
Source: John Scarborough, "EARLY ARABIC PHARMACOLOGY," Pharmacy in History, 2005, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 39-41.
Recipe Details
Ingredients
Acacia arabica, gum-arabic
Evidence
"the 'Botanical Index' begins with Acacia arabica—gum-arabic"
Remarks
Gum arabic (Acacia arabica) is explicitly listed as the first entry in the Botanical Index of the substances cataloged in Sābūr ibn Sahl's Small Dispensatory (p. 40). Although described here in a medical context, gum arabic was the standard binder for carbon and iron-gall inks in the medieval Islamic world (p. 41). The text highlights the significant technical overlap between pharmacological preparation and the manufacturing of inks (p. 41).
Scientific Analysis
Analytical Techniques
Lexicographical indexing
Botanical identification
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
ink
Bindergum-arabic
RegionIraq
Approx. Year950
Source Information
AuthorJohn Scarborough, "EARLY ARABIC PHARMACOLOGY," Pharmacy in History, 2005, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 39-41.
CollectionMS.or.oct.1839
Language
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