Una breve storia della farmacologia occidentale

This essay aims to offer a concise overview of the main dynamics that have marked the history of Western pharmacology. The objective of this work is to suggest a possible historicization to understand the socio-cultural context of the time in which the main discoveries in the pharmacological field have taken place. For this reason, the study has been restricted to the transversal “region” that is usually defined by the term “West”. Nevertheless, although moved by a spirit of genuine and meticulous precision, we are obviously aware of the shortcomings, even of a bibliographic nature, to which this type of enterprise exposes, and which can be remedied only with the binding revelation that this effort is nothing more than the first step in a much longer and, hopefully, fruitful path.