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Author Riddle, John M.

Title Dioscorides on pharmacy and medicine / John M. Riddle ; foreword by John Scarborough
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 1985
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011
©1985

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Description xxviii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series History of science series ; no. 3
History of science series (Austin, Tex.) ; no. 3
Contents 1.Dioscorides and the Materials of Medicine -- 2.One Plant, One Chapter -- 3.Drug Affinities -- 4.Animals, Wines, and Minerals -- 5.Done and Undone
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-277) and index
Subject Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos.
Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos. De materia medica.
Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Pharmacology -- History.
History, Ancient.
Pharmacognosy -- history.
Pharmacology -- history.
Author Scarborough, John.
LC no. 85006220
ISBN 0292715447
0292729847 (paperback)
9780292715448
9780292729841 (paperback)