Summary: into Continental Europe around 1200 A.D., a law for the regulation of the practice of medicine, including the control of drugs, was promulgated in 1240 by Emperor Fredrick II. In 1532, during the reign of Charles V, a law was passed providing that the opinion of medical men should be formally taken in every case of violent death. Thus, there came to be
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