Medicaments, Therapies and their Prices in the Inventary of the Family Batthyány 1650-1654.

Abstract

Author - after this short introduction and analysis - published below the pharmaceutical bills sent by various pharmacists for Count Adam Batthyány and for his wife Katalin Aurora For- mentini during the period 1650-1654. Based on these bills author identifies the illnesses to be cured, the names of pharmacists and the medicaments made by them, including their prices as well. The carefully written bills recorded the names of the medicaments used both in German and Latin. The prices partly proved to be astonishingly high, so author concludes that services of pharmacists that time were utilized exclusively by the rich. Analysing the bills we can identify the illnesses of the Batthyány family and also those of the Turks imprisoned in their castle, whose curing served the economic interest of the count.