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Pedanius Dioscorides ( Greek: Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, Pedánios Dioskourídēs; c. 40–90 AD), "the father of pharmacognosy ", was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of De materia medica ( Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, On Medical Material), a 5-volume Greek encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances (a pharmacopeia...
Pedanius Dioscorides (born c. ad 40, Anazarbus, Cilicia—died c. 90) was a Greek physician and pharmacologist whose work De materia medica was the foremost classical source of modern botanical terminology and the leading pharmacological text for 16 centuries.
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DIOSCORIDES. Master Herbalist, Father of Pharmacy. About two thousand years ago, Pedanius Dioscorides, a physician traveling throughout the Roman Empire with Emperor Nero's army, would collect samples of the local medicinal herbs everywhere he went.
Between 50 and 70 AD, a Greek physician in the Roman army, Dioscorides, wrote a five-volume book in his native Greek, Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς (Peri hules iatrikēs, "On Medical Material"), known more widely in Western Europe by its Latin title De materia medica.
De Materia Medica, Latin for “On Medical Material” is a surviving text from the first century written by Pedanius Dioscorides (c. 40-90 CE), a Greek medical botanist and physician who served in the Roman army.
Pedanius Dioscorides (born c. ad 40, Anazarbus, Cilicia—died c. 90) was a Greek physician and pharmacologist whose work De materia medica was the foremost classical source of modern botanical terminology and the leading pharmacological text for 16 centuries.
This is the first book on medicinal plants as an applied science. In the 1st century the Greek physician Dioscorides, while travelling with the Roman army, collected information on plants which he compiled into De materia medica, describing over 600 plants and their medical properties.
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