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    Pedanius Dioscorides (Ancient Greek: Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, Pedánios Dioskourídēs; c. 40–90 AD), "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek physician...
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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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    Wayback Machine, at Biblioteca Nacional de España (in Spanish) site Dioscórides Interactivo Archived 2015-04-10 at the Wayback Machine Ediciones Universidad...
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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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  • Dioscorides (Greek: Διοσκουρίδης, Dioskourídēs; 3rd century BC) was a Greek epigrammatist of the Hellenistic period. Dioscorides seems, from the internal...
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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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    Ampittia dioscorides, the common bush hopper or simply bush hopper, is a species of butterfly found in India, China, Indochina, Cambodia and on to Borneo...
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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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  • 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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  • the rationality of early medicine. He has written extensively about Dioscorides, who published a description of 500 distinct plants around 78 AD that...
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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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  • identifiers Boswellia dioscoridis Wikidata: Q4948347 ARKive: boswellia-dioscorides CoL: MMMN EoL: 5616094 GBIF: 5636148 iNaturalist: 438064 IPNI: 20003267-1...
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    derives from the title of a work by the Ancient Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides in the 1st century AD, De materia medica, 'On medical material' (Περὶ...
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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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    of the first century by Greek physician and pharmacologist Pedanius Dioscorides. De materia medica was widely read for more than 1,500 years. Important...
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    important work was a commentary on the medicinal plants of Pedanius Dioscorides first published in 1544 which was translated into several languages and...
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    ginkgo, echinacea, feverfew, and Saint John's wort. The pharmacopoeia of Dioscorides, De materia medica, describing some 600 medicinal plants, was written...
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    that were easier to store and transport. The Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides attested to the method in his 1st century CE medical treatise De Materia...
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    Parma Violets Ingredients Font Quer, Pio (1995). Plantas Medicinales; el Dioscórides Renovado (in Spanish) (15th ed.). Barcelona: Editorial Labor S.A. pp...
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    Cassius Dio Diodorus Siculus Diogenes Laërtius Dionysius of Halicarnassus Dioscorides Eusebius of Caesaria Galen Herodian Josephus Julian Libanius Lucian Pausanias...
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    agreement of John M. Riddle, one of the foremost experts on Materia Medica-Dioscorides works. Nicolaes Tulp, mayor of Amsterdam and respected surgeon general...
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    can be found in Athenaeus, Plutarch, Claudius Aelianus Harpokration, Dioscórides, Galen, Philostratus, Herodian, Tatian, Ammianus Marcellinus, Solinus...
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    name is derived from the Greek name ἰβίσκος (ibískos) which Pedanius Dioscorides gave to Althaea officinalis (c. 40–90 AD). Several species are widely...
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