Abstract :
In 2015, a five volume book entitled in Persian:
“Daneshname-ye Darousazi va Daroukhanehdari
dar Esfahan” (the Encyclopedia of Pharmacy and
Pharmaceutical Supplies in Isfahan) was published.1 The
author, Dr. Hossein Yaghini (b. 1943), is a pharmacist.
In addition, he is a writer, painter, graphist and sculptor.
His current work is a comprehensive research on the
history of pharmacy in Isfahan which has been carried
out in a five-year period and consists of 5269 pages
including relevant documents and pictures. The author
wrote the book based on pervious written data and the
information given to him by 135 physicians, pharmacists
and pharmaceutical institutes.
