Handbook for Medicines by Iosif Țiucra, a Teacher. A Nineteenth-Century Manuscript in the History of Pharmacy Collection (MNIT)
Handbook for Medicines by Iosif Țiucra, a Teacher. A Nineteenth-Century Manuscript in the History of Pharmacy Collection (MNIT)

Summary/Abstract: Among the numerous artifacts preserved in the History of Pharmacy Collection of the National Museum of Transylvanian History in Cluj Napoca (MNIT) there is an unpublished manuscript, a handbook with practical medical advice, dated 1876 and written in Romanian by Iosif Țiucra, a schoolteacher activating in Bârsa (Berza) village, Arad County.This research aims to present Iosif Țiucra, the content of his manuscript and to contextualize his handbook, considering the sanitary problems of the Romanian community in Arad County, in the middle of the nineteenth century.

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