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Medical recipes are scattered in numerous manuscripts both in Latin and the vernacular. Many date from the so-called dark ages, that is, pre-Salernitan Europe before the first translations of the Islamic medical writings1. Examination of the nature and sources of this early medieval recipe literature has disclosed an interesting connection with eastern drugs. The importance of this connection is grasped when we note that the large amounts of oriental products mentioned in western texts indicates both extensive trade contact and a type of communication about new drugs. This development comes prior to any known translations of medical texts and when, according to the old Perenne thesis, Europe was introverted and isolated from contact with the Islamic east.
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