Kew Bulletin, January 1st, 2001
T. A. Osbaldson & R. P. A. Wood. Dioscorides, De Materia Medica. A new indexed version in modern English. Pp. 927, numerous black & white illustrations. South Africa: Ibidis Press, P.O. Box 81169 Parkhurst, Johannesberg 2120, 2000. Price 150. ISBN 0-62023435 (hardback).
Pedanios Dioscorides (Dioskourides) lived in the first century A.D. and was a military pharmacist in the army of Nero. Born in Asia Minor, he obviously moved about in the Eastern Mediterranean region as a soldier, thereby becoming acquainted with a wide range of plants. He supplemented his knowledge of these from the w...
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