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Pharmacy and drug lore in antiquity : Greece, Rome, Byzantium / John Scarborough.
- Title
- Pharmacy and drug lore in antiquity : Greece, Rome, Byzantium / John Scarborough.
- Author
- Scarborough, John
- Publication
- Farnham : Ashgate, c2010.
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Details
- Description
- 1 v. various pagings : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Variorum collected studies series ; CS904
- Uniform Title
- Collected studies CS904.
- Subject
- To 1500
- Pharmacognosy > history
- History, Ancient
- Pharmacognosy
- Pharmacognosy > history
- History, Ancient
- Geschichte
- Antike
- Pharmacognosy > history > Greece > Collected Works
- Pharmacognosy > history > Rome > Collected Works
- History, Ancient > Greece > Collected Works
- History, Ancient > Rome > Collected Works
- Pharmacy > Greece > History > To 1500
- Pharmacy > Rome
- Pharmacy > Byzantine Empire
- Botany, Medical > Greece > History > To 1500
- Botany, Medical > Rome
- Botany, Medical > Byzantine Empire
- Geneeskrachtige planten
- Geneesmiddelen
- Drugs
- Phytopharmakologie (Medizin)
- Pharmacognosy > Greece > History > Collected Works
- Pharmacognosy > Rome > History > Collected Works
- Byzantium
- Rome
- Greece
- Turkey
- Istanbul
- Byzantinisches Reich
- Römisches Reich
- Oudheid
- Griechenland (Altertum)
- Genre/Form
- Collected Work
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The pharmacology of sacred plants, herbs, and roots -- On medications for burns in classical antiquity -- Theoretical assumptions in Hippocratic pharmacology -- Theophrastus on herbals and herbal remedies -- Nicander's toxicology I : snakes -- Nicander's toxicology II : spiders, scorpions, insects and myriapods -- The opium poppy in Hellenistic and Roman medicine -- Roman pharmacy and the eastern drug trade : some problems illustrated by the example of aloe -- Pharmacy in Pliny's Natural history : some observations on substances and sources -- The pharmacy of Methodist medicine : the evidence of Soranus' Gynecology -- Criton, physician to Trajan : historian and pharmacist -- Pharmaceutical theory in Galen's commentaries on the Hippocratic episdemics : some observations on Roman views of Greek drug lore -- Early Byzantine pharmacology -- Herbs of the field and herbs of the garden in Byzantine medicinal pharmacy.
- ISBN
- 9780754659549 (hbk.)
- 0754659542 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2009933508
- OCLC
- 436264691
- SCSB-12859573
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library