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    millennia Dioscorides was regarded as the most prominent writer on plants and plant drugs. A native of Anazarbus, Cilicia, Asia Minor, Dioscorides likely...
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  • Pedanius Dioscorides (c. AD 40–90) was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, and botanist. Dioscorides or Dioscurides may also refer to: Dioscurides (nephew...
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    still using a copy of Dioscorides to identify plants in 1934. Between 50 and 70 AD, a Greek physician in the Roman army, Dioscorides, wrote a five-volume...
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  • Dioscorides (Greek: Διοσκουρίδης, Dioskourídēs; 3rd century BC) was a Greek epigrammatist of the Hellenistic period. Dioscorides seems, from the internal...
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    works contain 16, 242 and 570 references to Dioscorides, respectively. The first appearance of Dioscorides as a printed book was a Latin translation printed...
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    Pedanius Dioscorides (c. 40–90 AD), was a Greek botanist, pharmacologist and physician who practiced in Rome during the reign of Nero. Dioscorides studied...
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    The Vienna Dioscurides or Vienna Dioscorides is an early 6th-century Byzantine Greek illuminated manuscript of an even earlier 1st century AD work, De...
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  • Dioscorides (Ancient Greek: Διοσκορίδης, fl. 225 BC), sometimes known as Dioscurides, was a Stoic philosopher, the father of Zeno of Tarsus and a pupil...
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  • period were the Ex Herbis Femininis, the Herbarius, and works by Dioscorides. Dioscorides was a Greek physician and botanist in 50 AD who devoted his life's...
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  • Saints Helladius, Crescentius, Paul and Dioscorides are honored as Christian martyrs who were burned to death in Rome either in 244 or 326. According...
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  • Hibiscus dioscorides is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is a shrub endemic to the island of Socotra in Yemen. It grows on granite...
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    identifying the plants originally described by Dioscorides, Mattioli added descriptions of some plants not in Dioscorides and not of any known medical use, thus...
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    ιατρικής "Peri hules iatrikes", 'On medical materials') of Pedanios Dioscorides, a physician in the Roman army, was produced in about 65 CE. It was the...
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    the complementary work of the Dioscorides, both by Servetus" and "The book of work of Michael Servetus for his Dioscorides and his 'Dispensarium'". González...
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    (Dioscorides) is the balsam plant. Palladius names it βάλσαμος and also has βαλσαμουργός, a preparer of balsam. Related are ξῠλο-βάλσᾰμον (Dioscorides...
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    physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and Roman army surgeon Pedanius Dioscorides authored an encyclopedia of medicinal substances commonly known as De...
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    c. 1550 BC, describes over 850 plant medicines. The Greek physician Dioscorides, who worked in the Roman army, documented over 1000 recipes for medicines...
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  • temple walls of Edfu and Philae. Greek kyphi recipes are recorded by Dioscorides (De materia medica, I, 24), Plutarch and Galen (De antidotis, II, 2)...
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  • Pulicaria dioscorides is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found only on the island of Socotra in Yemen. Its natural habitat...
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    influenced by Dioscorides, it is believed that his book was written after Dioscorides' Materia Medica. The acclaimed Greek herbalist Dioscorides worked alongside...
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  • Dioscoride Lanza (24 April 1898 – 28 October 1977) was an Italian racing driver. He entered 30 races between 1936 and 1955 – of which he started 24 – most...
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    8:3) Jerusalem Talmud (Shabbat 7:2) Dioscorides, Pedanius (1959). R.T. Gunther (ed.). The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides. Translated by John Goodyer. New York...
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  • identifiers Boswellia dioscoridis Wikidata: Q4948347 ARKive: boswellia-dioscorides CoL: MMMN EoL: 5616094 GBIF: 5636148 iNaturalist: 438064 IPNI: 20003267-1...
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    3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9. "ADW: Ampittia dioscorides: CLASSIFICATION". "Ampittia dioscorides Fabricius, 1793 | Species | India Biodiversity Portal"...
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    a name used in De Materia Medica for some kind of larkspur. Pedanius Dioscorides said the plant got its name because of its dolphin-shaped flowers. Species...
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    possibly can. The ritual given in Pliny probably relies on Theophrastus. Dioscorides in De materia medica (1st century) described the uses of mandragora as...
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    used the older term materia medica taken from the works of Galen and Dioscorides. In German, the term Drogenkunde ("science of crude drugs") is also used...
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    far back as the first century AD, when the Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides cited it as one of the terms used by the Romans for the plant. Merriam-Webster...
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    Pliny's description with the account of stypteria (στυπτηρία) given by Dioscorides, it is obvious the two are identical. Pliny informs us that a form of...
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    salep". Dictionary.com. Dalby, p. 292; Theophrastus, 9.18.13; Pedanius Dioscorides, 3.126-8; Pliny the Elder, 26.95-98, 27.65; Pseudo-Apuleius, 15.3. Jacobi...
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