| Title |
Pharmacy and drug lore in antiquity : Greece, Rome, Byzantium / John Scarborough. |
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| Imprint |
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2010. |
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| Description |
1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Collected studies ; CS904.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject(s) |
Pharmacy -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
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Pharmacy -- Rome.
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Pharmacy -- Byzantine Empire.
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Botany, Medical -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
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Botany, Medical -- Rome.
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Botany, Medical -- Byzantine Empire.
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