Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine / / John M. Riddle.
For 1,600 years Dioscorides (ca. AD 40–80) was regarded as the foremost authority on drugs. He knew mild laxatives and strong purgatives, analgesics for headaches, antiseptics for wounds, emetics to rid one of ingested poisons, chemotherapy agents for cancer treatments, and even oral contraceptives....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1985 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of Science Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Dioscorides and the Materials of Medicine
- 2. One Plant, One Chapter
- 3. Drug Affinities
- 4. Animals, Wines, and Minerals
- 5. Done and Undone
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index