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Pharmacy and drug lore in antiquity :

Scarborough, John

Pharmacy and drug lore in antiquity : Greece, Rome, Byzantium - Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2010. - 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. - Variorum collected studies series ; CS904 . - Collected studies ; CS904. .

Includes bibliographical references

The pharmacology of sacred plants, herbs, and roots -- On medications for burns in classical antiquity -- Theoretical assumptions in Hippocratic pharmacology -- Theophrastus on herbals and herbal remedies -- Nicander's toxicology I : snakes -- Nicander's toxicology II : spiders, scorpions, insects and myriapods -- The opium poppy in Hellenistic and Roman medicine -- Roman pharmacy and the eastern drug trade : some problems illustrated by the example of aloe -- Pharmacy in Pliny's Natural history : some observations on substances and sources -- The pharmacy of Methodist medicine : the evidence of Soranus' Gynecology -- Criton, physician to Trajan : historian and pharmacist -- Pharmaceutical theory in Galen's commentaries on the Hippocratic episdemics : some observations on Roman views of Greek drug lore -- Early Byzantine pharmacology -- Herbs of the field and herbs of the garden in Byzantine medicinal pharmacy.

9780754659549 (cloth : alk. paper) 0754659542 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Pharmacy--History--Greece--To 1500.
Pharmacy--Rome.
Pharmacy--Byzantine Empire.
Botany, Medical--History--Greece--To 1500.
Botany, Medical--Rome.
Botany, Medical--Byzantine Empire.
Pharmacognosy--history--Byzantium--Collected Works.
Pharmacognosy--history--Greece--Collected Works.
Pharmacognosy--history--Rome--Collected Works.
History, Ancient--Byzantium--Collected Works.
History, Ancient--Greece--Collected Works.
History, Ancient--Rome--Collected Works.
Geneeskrachtige planten.
Geneesmiddelen.
Drugs.
Phytopharmakologie (Medizin)
Antike.
Geschichte.


Oudheid.
Griechenland (Altertum)
Römisches Reich.
Byzantinisches Reich.

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