In the Transylvania of the 17th and 18th centuries, the nobles traveled quite a lot and always had chests with medicines with them, for adequate treatment, if needed. The Pharmacy History Collection in Cluj has in its heritage such an artifact, which belonged to Terézia Kemény. The chest, with many drawers and compartments, is precious in that it keeps all the bottles, each with the name (in Latin and Hungarian) of the substance it contained, and some of them also preserved the medicine inside: mustard seeds, used bezoars in case of poisoning and many others, about which we learn from our colleague Dr. Ana Maria Gruia. Dr. Márta Guttmann tells us about the secrets of the substances present in these vials, and Dr. Diana Varga tells us the story of Terézia Kemény and her family. If you are fascinated by the history of the pharmacy, on the facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/colectiefarmacluj) and on the collection blog (http://farmacluj.blogspot.com) you can find every day super interesting posts about diseases and their remedies, containers, medical tools and many other curiosities related to this field.
