Pharmacy, Testing, and the Language of Truth in Renaissance Italy

Figure 2. Scholion for the recipe of the "Indo Maggiore"—a mixture of observations, warnings, and advice as its heading "awertimento" suggests—from Giorgio Melichio, Avvertimenti nelle compositioni per uso della spetiaria (Venice, 1605), sig. 23r. Courtesy of the Wellcome Library, London.
Figure 2.

Scholion for the recipe of the "Indo Maggiore"—a mixture of observations, warnings, and advice as its heading "awertimento" suggests—from Giorgio Melichio, Avvertimenti nelle compositioni per uso della spetiaria (Venice, 1605), sig. 23r. Courtesy of the Wellcome Library, London.

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