Project muse renaissance quarterlyvolume 61, number 2. Il dioscoride di napoli, edizione facsimilare del codice risalente a 2000 anni fa. Dioscorides dioscorides materia medica materia medica manuscripts manuscripts in in turkey turkey. His military years provided opportunities for studying diseases, collecting and identifying medicinal plants, and. This book exemplifies the transfer of knowledge across the centuries. During his lifetime, dioscorides traveled extensively seeking medicinal substances from all over the roman and greek world. As a surgeon with the roman army of emperor nero, dioscorides traveled through italy, gaul, spain, and north africa, recording the existence and medicinal. Materia medica di dioscoride e codex juliae aniciae. A learned physician, he practiced medicine as an army doctor, and saw service with the roman legions in greece, italy, asia minor, and provence in modernday france. The medicinal materials whose sources, preparations and uses are described include more than 600 plants, but also animal products and minerals.
During the first century, the greek doctor and apothecary dioscorides, who is considered the father of pharmacology, wrote a very important document on botany and pharmaceuticals. So this book, as one of the earliest precursors to modern pharmacopoeias is. Although of greek origin, he served and travelled with roman armies throughout the empire, collecting what medical knowledge he could, everywhere he went. It is based on the greek text established by max wellmann in 1906 1914. Risk of acute liver injury associated with the use of drugs.
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