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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Ethnopharmacol. 2010 Jun 16;132(1):28–47. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2010.05.035

Table 1.

Most Important Periods of Pharmaceutical Development/Pharmaceutical Manuscripts and Publications Produced

Place Time Period Number of Authors % of Total Authors (n=77) Number of References in Early Modern Works % of Total References (n=415)
Greece 400s–300s BC 4 5.2 25 6.02
Rome 00s–100s AD 6 7.8 47 11.3
Byzantium 300s–1200s AD 5 6.5 30 7.2
Arabia 800s–1100s AD 8 10.4 47 11.3
Western Europe – Late Medieval 1100s–1300s AD 15 19.5 73 17.6
Western Europe – Renaissance 1400s–1500s AD 39 50.6 193 46.5
Total 77 100 415 100