Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis

In the early modern period, like today, the function of pharmacies was to provide medicines prescribed by doctors. They were essential for pre-modern medicine and were therefore subject to official regulations. Tommaso Garzoni's encyclopedia Piazza Universale, published in 1641, underlines the respectability of the pharmacist's profession.

The book about the art of distilling by Hieronymus Brunschwig provides a highly stylized insight into a pharmacy at the beginning of modern times.