An Overview of History of Near Term Turkish Pharmacy Through Süheyl Ünver's Notebook

Famous medical historian and distinguished professor A. Süheyl Ünver who had illuminated a dark period by writing many works in his field, has continued its works in many ways. Ünver, who has carried out art, culture and institution historiography together with the history of medicine, has developed a multidisciplinary methodology. Ünver has made numerous studies and published books on the history of pharmacy, which did not differ from medical history until a certain period. Although many of these have been published separately, there are still hundreds of notebooks pending in the Süleymaniye Library Süheyl Ünver Collection and elsewhere. 'Concerning the Recent History of Turkish Pharmacy' which is one of the notebooks of Ünver is the subject of this article. The notebook named 'The History of Turkish Pharmacology II' contains rare information about the recent history of Turkish pharmacy. The notebook which contains information concerning many Müslim and non-Müslim pharmacists and pharmacies of various sizes in different districts of Istanbul under 60 titles, is studied in this article and this notebook is translated into modern Turkish language. One of the important aspects of the work is that it contains some information about deontology. This notebook is important in terms of explaining the relationship between physician-pharmacist, pharmacist-patient, and pharmacists. Moreover, this study includes the contributions of Süheyl Ünver to the history of Turkish pharmacy through bibliographic analysis. This study, is noteworthy in terms of illuminating one of the missing links in the history of pharmacy.