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	Pedanius Dioscorides Summary
		Although Dioscorides was Greek, he spoke his native tongue with an accent because he was born in Cilicia, an ancient state located in modern-day Turkey.
		Dioscorides, the compiler of one of the first important Western herbals, is regarded as the founder of Western pharmacology.
		Dioscorides, a keen observer and naturalist, was attempting to devise a more systematic treatment of botany and herbal medicine than his predecessors.
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	Pedanius Dioscorides
		He was a a surgeon with the army of the emperor so he had the opportunity to travel extensively seeking medicinal substances from all over the Roman and Greek world.
		Dioscorides is famous for writing a five volume book De Materia Medica that was a precursor to all modern pharmacopeias.
		All that was written was a mere commentary on Dioscorides' work with minor additions from Arabian and Indian sources.
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	Dioscorides of Anazarbus
		Dioscorides (or Dioscurides) of Anazarbus (today's Turkey) (Διοσκουρίδης o Πεδάνιος) was a Greek physician born in southeast Asia Minor in the Roman Empire in the first few decades AD.
		Dioscorides must have made his observations in clinical situations, because it is highly unlikely that he could have acquired the knowledge in any other way.
		If Dioscorides' method had been followed, his successors would have looked within each simple for those active ingredients which caused similar reactions regardless of their natural home, just as Dioscorides did when he saw calcium oxide as the common substance shared by shell aquatic animals and the mineral limestone.
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	Pedanius Dioscorides ( c.40 - c.90) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pedanius Dioscorides was a celebrated Greek physician, botanist, pharmacologist and surgeon.
		Dioscorides' foremost work is the five-volume De Materia Medica, the precursor of all modern pharmacopeias.
		Dioscorides describes how wine made from mandragora can induce anaesthesia - in the sense of an absence of sensation - in people about to undergo surgery or a cauterization of their wounds.
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	Dioskurides Materia Medica
		Before Dioscorides, medical writers prescribed drugs for the ill and injured, but the scale and thoroughness of Dioscorides' work superseded all previous efforts-this judged both by what is extant of pre-Christian-era works and by what is related by later writers about them.
		In the Preface, Dioscorides claimed that his predecessors' contributions suffered from a number of faults: noncomprehensiveness, mistakes of information, confusions of drug identities, too little attention to drug properties, insufficient emphasis on experimental testing of drugs, and poor organization, such as arrangement by incompatible properties and by the alphabet.
		Dioscorides saw patterns in how various materials reacted on and in the body, and he recorded them without seeking to condense them to the more comprehensive systems his ancestors and colleagues were wont to form and defend.
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	De Materia Medica
		Dioscorides compiled his medical treatise at the suggestion of a fellow-physician, Areius.
		Gaius Plinius Secundus, known as Pliny the Elder, was born in Como in 23CE and died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79CE.
		For almost two millenia Dioscorides was regarded as the ultimate authority on plants and medicine.
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	Greek Medicine \| Other Greek Physicians \| Dioscorides
		Dioscorides of Anazarbus was a Greek physician born in southeast Asia Minor in the Roman Empire in the first few decades C.E. During his lifetime, Dioscorides traveled extensively seeking medicinal substances from all over the Roman and Greek world.
		This Spanish edition of Dioscorides is one of the many illustrated editions which came out in the 16th century.
		Dioscorides included animal products in his medicines along with plants and minerals.
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		Dioscorides was reputed to have been either the physician to Anthony and Cleopatra or an army surgeon during the reign of the Emperor Nero.
		Many of the actions Dioscorides decribes are familiar today: parsley as a diuretic, fennel to promote milk flow, and white horehound mixed with honey as an expectorant.
		This was based firmly on Galenical principles and by the 12th century had been translated into Latin and brought back to the West to become one of the leading textbooks in Western medical schools.
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	History of the Carrot
		Dioscorides said that the Greeks used carrot leaves against cancerous tumours.
		Dioscorides wrote "Ye root ye thickness of a finger, a span long, sweet-smelling, edible being sodden [boiled].
		Of this ye seed being drank...and it is good for ye [painful discharge of urine] in potions, and for ye bitings and strokes of venomous beasts; they say also, that they which take it before hand shall take no wrong of wilde beasts.
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		However, the earliest known text is the Herbal compiled by the Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides, which dates from the second half of the first century A.D. He entitled it ‘De Materia Medica’, and it is in five books.
		Dioscorides’ text deals not only with the medicinal properties of plants, but also with animal and mineral derived remedies.
		However, there was a serious, and potentially dangerous, problem for any would-be herbalist, or sufferer, who tried to follow of the receipts contained in the early herbals, since much ignorance abounded about the proper identification and full effects of the plants recommended to be used.
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	edible planet \| roots of our food : sugar
		The famous Greek physician, Pedanius Dioscorides, who served the Roman Emperor Nero during the 1
		Dioscorides' famous manuscript, De Materia Medica, was considered the authority on medicinal plants for nearly sixteen centuries.
		In De Materia Medica he describes sugar as "good for the belly and stomach being dissolved in water and so drank; helping the pained bladder and the veins." Sugar was only known by, or accessible to, a privileged few.
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	Timeline: Pedanius Dioscorides, c. 40–90 CE - MedHunters
		Pedanius Dioscorides (sometimes Pedanus Dioscurides), a first-century Greek physician, is considered the most important pharmaceutical writer of ancient times.
		In total, Dioscorides described about 1,000 remedies, with almost 5,000 uses, using approximately 600 plants and plant products, as well as a few animal products and minerals.
		Dioscorides was born in Cilicia, located in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey).
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	Introduction to Marijuana: Medical Papers
		Except for Herodotus' report that the Scythians used the smoke from burning hemp seeds for intoxication, the ancient Greeks seemed to be unaware of the psychoactive properties of cannabis.
		Dioscorides in the first century A.D. rendered an accurate morphologic description of the plant, but made no note of intoxicating properties.[10]
		Dioscorides, Pedanius: "The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides," Edited by Robert T. Gunther, Hafner Publishing Co., New York, 1959, pp.
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	InfoDome - The Friend of Physicians and the Praise of Cooks: An Annotated Bibliography of Herbal texts in Special ...
		Dioscorides, Pedanius, of Anazarbos (I) Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654 (I)
		Dioscorides lived during the reign of the Emperor Nero.
		The illustrations which appear in the facsimile edition of the Vienna Dioscorides are from “the collection Rhizotomicon of Crateuas of Pergamon, physician in ordinary to King Mithridates VI of Pontus (120-63 B.C.).”
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	HGI Online Gardening Courses - Everyday Garden Science: Zones Clarify Plant Categories
		It was Pedanius Dioscorides, a Greek physician working in Rome nearly two millenia ago, who first outlined the basic categories—annuals, herbaceous perennials, shrubs, vines, and trees—we have traditionally used to classify plants.
		He did not take into account that many of the plants he observed had found their way to Rome from elsewhere in the Roman Empire—which at that time stretched from the frigid Alps to the tropics—and thus might exhibit different growth habits under different climatic conditions.
		Since the time of Dioscorides, horticulturists have coined a variety of terms to distinguish between plants that are “true” annuals—those that complete their life cycle and die in a year or less no matter where they are grown—and plants that survive and thrive only in frost-free areas.
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	Valerius Cordus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1539 he relocated to the University of Wittenberg, where he lectured and studied medicine.
		His lectures proved popular, and Cordus' lecture notes were published posthumously in 1549 as Annotations on Dioscorides.
		Among the research outlined in the lectures were the results of his own systematic observations of many of the same plants described by Pedanius Dioscorides in the 1st century CE.
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	The National Herb Garden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They are arranged in discrete, wedge-shaped groupings arrayed around a central circle.
		Dioscorides Garden – medicinal herbs from a pharmacopoeia compiled by the Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides.
		Today’s aspirin is a synthetic copy of the compound from a white willow tree studied by Dioscorides, who noted that juices from its bark and leaves eased colds’ aches and fevers.
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	Greek Medicine - Hippocrates - Crystalinks
		Galen built on Hippocrates' theory of the four humors, and his writings became the foundation of medicine in Europe and the Middle East for centuries.
		The Greek physicians Herophilos and Paulus Aegineta were pioneers in the study of anatomy, while Pedanius Dioscorides wrote an extensive treatise on the practice of pharmacology.
		Hippocrates was the first physician known who actually considered medicine to be a science, and to be separate from religion.
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	TMTh:: DIOSCORIDES PEDANIUS
		A native of Anazarbus, in Cilicia, Dioscorides was the founder of pharmaceutical science and the father of pharmacology.
		Dioscorides describes a total of some 600 herbal remedies, which are discussed both as botanicals and in relation to all their therapeutic effects.
		Rather than following an alphabetical order, his work classes drugs by form (pills, potions, salves, etc.).
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	Dioscorides, Pedanius - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		While traveling as a surgeon in the Roman army, he collected information on the remedies of the period and wrote a work on materia medica (tr.
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	Herbal Remedies today and their benefits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They include the use of leaves, bark, berries, roots, gums, seeds, stems and flowers.
		One of the earliest herbal texts was written at the time of Nero by Pedanius Dioscorides, a Greek physician serving in the Roman army.
		In it, he listed many plants to treat each symptom, probably in hopes that readers might find at least one medicinal plant in their own locality.
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	CancerLinks Card Catalog R-RB Medicine
		Pedanius Dioscorides - Tess Anne Osbaldeston, translator and editor
		Pedanius Dioscorides, probably lived between 40CE and 90CE in the time of the Roman Emperors Nero and Vespasian.
		A learned physician, he practiced medicine as an army doctor, and saw service with the Roman legions in Greece, Italy, Asia Minor, and Provence in modern-day France.
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	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003380005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Table of contents for Healing renal diseases in antiquity : plants from Dioscorides' De materia medica, with illustrations from Greek and Arabic manuscripts, A.D. 512-15th century / Alain Touwaide...
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		Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Kidneys Diseases Treatment, Herbs Therapeutic use, Materia medica, Vegetable, Medicinal plants, Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos, Materia medica, Medicine, Greek and Roman
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