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“ON SUGAR ART”; OR, WHY DID FIFTEENTH CENTURY ITALIAN PHARMACISTS MAKE CANDY?
 This article looks at the production of candy by late mediaeval Italian pharmacists. The author discusses roots and shows its development was connected to use medical products based on honey, sugar, spices fruits. For many centuries such were treated as medicines only end Middle Ages did people start perceive th...

welcome, and medical historians will have cause to be grateful for this worthy legacy from Prof. Merke, who died on 6 June 1975. The subject is pursued from the Ice Age through the Middle Ages down to the nineteenth century, and includes quotations from the many original texts of Ancient Egyptian, Ethiopian, Grecian, Roman, and Arabian authors. The well-documented works of medical and lay perso...