Les apothicaires en Sicile à la fin du Moyen Âge

Abstract

Between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries, detailed regulations were set to control abuses by apothecaries, to watch over pharmacies, preparations and sales of medicines. There are the sign of a sicilian precocity. But apothecaries, in reality, far from the utopian model proposed by the treaties of the time, seem accustomed to cheat on the quantity and quality. This article aims to reconstruct as complete a picture as possible of the apothecary’s career: its training course based on books but also on apprenticeship in the shop, close to the master, and strategies used to establish within the urban infrastructure.