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The mystery and romance of alchemy and pharmacy (1897)

Thompson, C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel), 1862-1943 · London, The Scientific press, ltd. · leaf 62

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scorides, born in Anazaba inCilicia, was a Greek physician, who lived in orabout the second century. He gathered a greatportion of his information on materia medica dur-ing his travels with the Roman army, which heaccompanied on several expeditions in the capacityof physician. Afterwards he wrote… … PEDACION DIOSCORIDES.From a drawing, 1598. 44 Alchemy and Pharmacy. of all the medicines then in use, with their pre-parations and action as then known. The workof this early physician first appeared in a Latintranslation in 1478 ; the first Greek edition beingpublished in 1499. The work was…

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