Pedanius Dioscorides (Greek: Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, Pedánios Dioskourídēs; c. 40–90 AD), "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek physician, pharmacologist...
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Dioscoride Lanza (24 April 1898 – 28 October 1977) was an Italian racing driver. He entered 30 races between 1936 and 1955 – of which he started 24 – most...
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Hibiscus dioscorides is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is found only in Yemen. Its natural habitat is rocky areas. Miller, A...
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Ampittia dioscorides, the common bush hopper or simply bush hopper, is a species of butterfly found in India, China, Indochina, Cambodia and on to Borneo...
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Pedanius Dioscorides (c. AD 40–90) was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, and botanist. Dioscorides or Dioscurides may also refer to: Dioscurides (nephew...
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De materia medica (redirect from De Materia Medica (Dioscorides))
them. The five-volume work was written between 50 and 70 CE by Pedanius Dioscorides, a Greek physician in the Roman army. It was widely read for more than...
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Vienna Dioscurides (redirect from Vienna Dioscorides)
The Vienna Dioscurides or Vienna Dioscorides is an early 6th-century Byzantine Greek illuminated manuscript of an even earlier 1st century AD work, De...
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Dioscorides (Greek: Διοσκουρίδης, Dioskourídēs; 3rd century BC) was a Greek epigrammatist of the Hellenistic period. Dioscorides seems, from the internal...
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derives from the title of a work by the Ancient Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides in the 1st century AD, De materia medica, 'On medical material' (Περὶ...
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also wrote a 1537 book, Stirpium differentiae ex Dioscoride, on the medicinal plants from Dioscorides. Textor's son Claude became a mathematician and another...
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Boswellia dioscoridis (redirect from Boswellia dioscorides)
Boswellia dioscorides is a species of plant in the family Burseraceae. It is endemic to island Socotra, Yemen. Its natural habitats are subtropical or...
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Dioscorides (Greek: Διοσκορίδης, fl. 225 BC), sometimes known as Dioscurides, was a Stoic philosopher, the father of Zeno of Tarsus and a pupil of Chrysippus...
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Pulicaria dioscorides is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in Yemen. Its natural habitat is rocky areas. Miller...
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Saints Helladius, Crescentius, Paul and Dioscorides are honored as Christian martyrs who were burned to death in Rome either in 244 or 326. According...
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East in search for plants that matched the mystifying descriptions of Dioscorides. A Placiti revealing Ghini's methods was published posthumously. The...
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ginkgo, echinacea, feverfew, and Saint John's wort. The pharmacopoeia of Dioscorides, De materia medica, describing some 600 medicinal plants, was written...
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of the first century by Greek physician and pharmacologist Pedanius Dioscorides. De materia medica was widely read for more than 1,500 years. Important...
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easier to store and to transport. A process the Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides attested to in his 1st century CE medical treatise De Materia Medica:...
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Cassius Dio Diodorus Siculus Diogenes Laërtius Dionysius of Halicarnassus Dioscorides Eusebius of Caesaria Galen Herodian Josephus Julian Libanius Lucian Pausanias...
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History of herbalism (section Dioscorides)
period were the Ex Herbis Femininis, the Herbarius, and works by Dioscorides. Dioscorides was a Greek physician and botanist in 50 AD who devoted his life's...
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agreement of John M. Riddle, one of the foremost experts on Materia Medica-Dioscorides works. Nicolaes Tulp, mayor of Amsterdam and respected surgeon general...
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his time in his Discorsi ("Commentaries") on the De Materia Medica of Dioscorides. The first edition of Mattioli's work, the Italian translation of De...
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c. 1550 BC, describes over 850 plant medicines. The Greek physician Dioscorides, who worked in the Roman army, documented over 1000 recipes for medicines...
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paradigmatique: des 'Schémas anatomiques' d’Aristote au 'De materia medica' de Dioscoride", Pallas, 93 (2013), p. 131-164 ext. link Oxford Translation of The Works...
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