A Pompeian Herbal : : Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants / / Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Jashemski, Wilhelmina Feemster,
• TeilnehmendeR: I, Victoria.; Meyer, Lillian Nicholson.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

When workmen excavating the ruins of Pompeii eagerly gathered the native medicinal plants growing there, Wilhelmina Jashemski discovered that this was another example of the continuity of life in the shadow of Vesuvius. Many of the plants used for herbal medicine around Pompeii today are the same ones that ancient authorities such as Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides recommended for treating the same types of disorders. In this book, Jashemski presents an herbal of thirty-six medicinal plants, most of them known to the ancients and still employed today. She describes each plant's contemporary medicinal uses and compares them to ancient practices as recorded in literary sources. Scientific, English, and Italian names and the plant's mythological associations complete the entries, while elegant, full-page portraits depict each plant visually.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations of Authors Cited or Quoted -- Preface -- I. Introduction - Medicinal Plants: Then and Now -- II. Medical Plants at Pompeii: Then and Now -- Ancient Authors Cited or Quoted -- Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources -- List of Illustrations -- Index -- Greek Index