最初的药典是一种“记载医院成方”的书。与我国宋朝药局的局方相内似,后来逐渐改进而成为制造、管理、检验和使用药品的一种法典(至今,日本药典仍名“日本药局方”)。世界各国药典中,以意大利的佛洛偷斯(Florence)城医科大学所编著的Ricetaris为最早(1498年出版)。以後於1542年,Valerus The original pharmacopoeia was a “book that records the hospital”. Like China’s Bureau of Pharmacopoeia of the Song Dynasty, it gradually became a code of manufacture, management, testing and use of medicines (so far, the Japanese Pharmacopoeia still has its name “Japanese Pharmacopoeia”). Among the pharmacopoeias of the world, Ricetaris, edited by the City of Florence Medical University in Italy, was the earliest (published in 1498). Later in 1542, Valerus