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    Materia medica (lit.: 'medical material/substance') is a Latin term from the history of pharmacy for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic...
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    De materia medica (Greek: Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς /Peri hulēs iatrikēs/), On Medical Material, is a comprehensive pharmacopoeia on medicinal plants and the...
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    was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and the author of De materia medica (Greek: Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς /Peri hylēs iatrikēs/), a five-volume Greek...
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    manuscript copy, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York of De Materia Medica, a large herbal or work on the (mostly) medical uses of plants originally...
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    along with De Materia Medica it is Pliny's work that is the most frequently mentioned of the classical texts, even though Galen's (131–201 CE) De Simplicibus...
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  • attributed to pre-Mongol Baghdad is the dispersed 1224 Dioscorides ( De Materia Medica 1224). Here again, attribution to Baghdad remains tentative, and a...
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    word δελφίνιον (delphínion) which means "dolphin", a name used in De Materia Medica for some kind of larkspur. Pedanius Dioscorides said the plant got...
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    Dioscorides wrote a five-volume book, De materia medica, covering over 600 plants and coining the term materia medica. It formed the basis for many medieval...
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    over 1000 recipes for medicines using over 600 medicinal plants in De materia medica, c. 60 AD; this formed the basis of pharmacopoeias for some 1500 years...
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  • dedicated, in 990-991AD, an improved translation of Dioscorides' De Materia Medica to the Prince Abu Ali al-Samjuri. Carl Brockelmann: Arabische Litteratur...
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    Anazarbei, de Materia Medica, Adjectis quàm plurimis plantarum & animalium imaginibus, eodem authore, also known as Commentarii. This Materia Medica work had...
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    Vita Anton. c. 36; Florus, Epitome bellorum 3.5.29; Dioscorides, De materia medica 1:18) this plant was cultivated in the environs of Jericho (Strabo...
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  • Dioscurides. Euporista vel de simplicibus medicinis. 1.222.1-4, quoted in Pedanius Dioscorides, Pedanii Dioscuridis Anazarbei de Materia Medica Libri Quinque, ed...
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    appearance of the English language, Pedanius Dioscorides, in his De Materia Medica, had already described members of the Apocynaceae, such as Apocynum...
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    instead. Pedanius Dioscorides states in his 1st century AD pharmacopeia De Materia Medica that the Romans used the Greek rhododendron but also the Latin Oleander...
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    encyclopedia, De materia medica, which listed over 600 herbal cures, forming an influential and long-lasting pharmacopoeia. De materia medica was used extensively...
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    Natural History and Celsus's De Medicina. Pedanius Dioscorides drew on and corrected earlier authors for his De Materia Medica, adding much new material;...
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    Greek illuminated manuscript of an even earlier 1st century AD work, De materia medica (Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς : Perì hylēs iatrikēs in the original Greek) by...
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    of De Materia Medica by the 1st century Greek military physician Dioscorides, with descriptions of plants and their medicinal uses. Unlike De Materia Medica...
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    and was believed to increase lifespan. Marjoram is mentioned in De Materia Medica by Pedanius Dioscorides, and was used by Hippocrates as an antiseptic...
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    Library, MS M. 652) is a 10th-century Byzantine illuminated copy of the De Materia Medica by the Greek physician Dioscurides, which covers the medical use of...
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    and culinary properties of "over 600 mediterranean plants" named De Materia Medica. Historians note that Dioscorides wrote about traveling often throughout...
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    Pedanius Dioscorides attested to in his 1st century CE medical treatise De Materia Medica: There is a kind of coalesced honey called sakcharon [i.e. sugar]...
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    plants. Rhodiola rosea was first described by Pedanius Dioscorides in De Materia Medica. Many North American plants formerly included in R. rosea are now...
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    poisonous plants to farmers. His Shénnóng Běn Cǎo Jīng (神農本草經, Shennong's Materia Medica) is considered as the oldest book on Chinese herbal medicine. It classifies...
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    other things). He talked about rosemary in his most famous writing, De Materia Medica, one of the most influential herbal books in history. The herb later...
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    Pedanios (2005). De materia medica. Lily Y. Beck (tłum.) (1 ed.). Olms-Weidmann. ISBN 3487128810. Dioskurydes, Pedanios (2017). De materia medica. Lily Y. Beck...
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    storax. Ciris mentions storax as a fragrant hair dye. Dioscorides (De materia medica 1.79) reports its use as incense, similar to frankincense, having...
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    De materia medica. Lily Y. Beck, trans. Third, revised edition. Georg Olms Verlag, 2017. p. 158. ISBN 9783487155715 Pedanius Dioscorides. De Materia Medica:...
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    produce distilled beverages. Dioscorides's ambix, described in his De materia medica (c. 50 C.E.), is a helmet-shaped lid for gathering condensed mercury...
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