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1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Pomum ambrae: Amber and ambergris in plague remedies -- The introduction and use of eastern drugs in the early middle ages -- Lithotherapy in the middle ages... Lapidries considered as medical texts -- The latin alphabetical dioscorides manuscript group -- Amber in ancient pharmacy. The transmission of information about a single drug. A case study -- Theory and practice in medieval medicine -- Book reviews, lectures and marginal notes. Three previously unknown sixteenth-century contributors to pharmacy, medicine and botany-ioannes manardus, franciscus frigimelica and melchior guilandinus.
Albert on stones and minerals -- Pseudo-dioscorides'ex herbis femininis and early medieval medical botany -- Gargilius Martialis as a medical writer -- The pseudo-Hippocratic dynamidia -- Ancient and medieval chemotherapy for cancer --Byzantine commentaries on dioscorides -- Folk tradition and folk medicine -- Recognition of drugs in classical antiquity -- Methodology of historical drug research.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.