Dioscorides
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Pedanius Dioscorides, "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek pharmacologist, physician, botanist, and author of De materia medica, a 5-volume Greek encyclopedic pharmacopeia on herbal medicine and
Dioscorides receives a mandrake root, an illumination from the 6th century (c. 512) Greek Juliana Anicia Codex (detail)
Blackberry from the 6th-century Vienna Dioscurides manuscript
Cover of an early printed version of De materia medica, Lyon, 1554
The genus Dioscorea includes different species of yam.
De materia medica
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De materia medica is a pharmacopoeia of medicinal plants and the medicines that can be obtained from them. The five-volume work was written between 50 and 70 CE by Pedanius Dioscorides, a Greek physic
Dioscorides
…Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, Pedánios Dioskourídēs; c. 40–90 AD), "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek pharmacologist, physician, botanist, and author of De materia medica (in the original Ancient Greek: Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, Peri hulēs iatrikēs, both meaning "On Medical Material"), a 5-volume Greek encyclopedic pharmacopeia…
Dioscorides receives a mandrake root. Vienna Dioscurides manuscript, early 6th century.
Mandrake (written 'ΜΑΝΔΡΑΓΟΡΑ' in Greek capitals). Naples Dioscurides, 7th century.