Dioscorides
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Pedanius Dioscorides, "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, 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.
Ibn al-Baytar
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Diyāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī, commonly known as Ibn al-Bayṭār was an Andalusian Arab physician, botanist, pharmacist and scientist. His main contribution was to systematica
Statue of Ibn al-Bayṭār in Benalmádena Costa, Spain
Copy of Ibn al-Baytar's Kitab al-jami' li-mufradat al-adwiyah wa'l-aghdhiyah, Near East, dated c. 1300