Pharmacy and drug lore in antiquity
Subtitle: Greece, Rome, Byzantium
By: John Scarborough
Series: Variorum collected studies series -- CS904; Collected studies -- CS904.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754659549
Subjects: Geneeskrachtige planten; Geneesmiddelen; Collected Works; Medical Botany; Pharmacy; Drugs; Antike; Ancient History; Geschichte; Phytopharmakologie (Medizin); Pharmacognosy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The pharmacology of sacred plants, herbs, and roots; title: On medications for burns in classical antiquity; title: Theoretical assumptions in Hippocratic pharmacology; title: Theophrastus on herbals and herbal remedies; title: Nicander's toxicology I : snakes; title: Nicander's toxicology II : spiders, scorpions, insects and myriapods; title: The opium poppy in Hellenistic and Roman medicine; title: Roman pharmacy and the eastern drug trade : some problems illustrated by the example of aloe; title: Pharmacy in Pliny's Natural history : some observations on substances and sources; title: The pharmacy of Methodist medicine : the evidence of Soranus' Gynecology; title: Criton, physician to Trajan : historian and pharmacist; title: Pharmaceutical theory in Galen's commentaries on the Hippocratic episdemics : some observations on Roman views of Greek drug lore; title: Early Byzantine pharmacology; title: Herbs of the field and herbs of the garden in Byzantine medicinal pharmacy.