Introduction. thinking with pharmacopoeias / Matthew James Crawford & Joseph M. Gabriel
part I. Pharmacopoeias and textual traditions. 1. Pharmacopoeias and the textual tradition in Galenic pharmacy / Paula De Vos
2. Authority, authorship, and copying : the Ricettario Fiorentino and manuscript recipe culture in sixteenth-century Florence / Emily Beck
3. An imperial pharmacopoeia? The Pharmacopoeia Matritensis and Materia medica in the eighteenth-century Spanish Atlantic world / Matthew James Crawford
part II. Pharmacopoeias and the codification of knowledge. 4. Beyond the pharmacopoeia? Secret remedies, exclusive privileges, and trademarks in early modern France / Justin Rivest
5. Crown authorities, colonial physicians, and the exigencies of empire : the codification of indigenous therapeutic knowledge in India and Brazil during the Enlightenment era / Timothy D. Walker
6. Imperfect knowledge : medicine, slavery, and silence in Hans Sloane's Philosophical transactions and the 1721 London pharmacopoeia / William J. Ryan
part III. Pharmacopoeias and the construction of New Worlds. 7. The flip side of the pharmacopoeia : sub-Saharan African medicines and poisons in the Atlantic world / Benjamin Breen
8. Consuming Canada : Capillaire du Canada in the French Atlantic world / Christopher Parsons
9. Rethinking pharmacopoeic forms : Samson Occom and Mohegan medicine / Kelly Wisecup
part IV. Pharmacopoeias and the emergence of the nation. 10. National identities, medical politics, and local traditions : the origins of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias, 1618-1807 / Stuart Anderson
11. The Codex nationalized : naming people and things in the wake of a revolution / Antoine Lentacker
12. Indian secrets, Indian cures, and the Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America / Joseph M. Gabriel
Afterword. The power of unknowing : early modern pharmacopoeias and the imagination of the Atlantic / Pablo F. Gómez.