Abstract
While still rare, studies of the international drug trade before the modern era are now slowly providing a base for some quantitative and qualitative comparison by historians of pharmacy, therapy, and commerce. The work of John Worth Estes and David Cowen on North America before 1900 has now been extended to the West Indies. The present study by A. M. G. Rutten, a Dutch historian of pharmacy and a trained pharmacologist, of the trade into the Caribbean and Africa by the Dutch West India Company (WIC) is an invaluable addition to a small but [End Page 148] important historical corpus. Using the extraordinary archives and ledgers of the company as his main primary sources, Rutten can present a far more focused and detailed account of shipments into the West Indies and the Dutch holdings in West Africa for the period 1600-1800 than previously available (or even imaginable).
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