The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides

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THE great work compiled during the first century A.D. by Dioscorides of Anazarba in Cilicia has been the chief source whence, for fifteen centuries and more, herbalists of all nations have drawn their inspiration, yet no English translation has hitherto been published. The first English writer to realize the importance of rendering this fountain-head of medical and botanical knowledge available for his fellow-countrymen was JOHN GOODYER, the great Botanist of Petersfield. Between the years 1652 and 1655 he laboriously wrote out the entire Greek text with an interlinear English translation on 4,540 quarto pages; and this, so far as I am aware, is the one and only attempt at an English Dioscorides. [From the editor's preface - 1934]

Author(s): Dioscorides; J. Goodyer (Trans.); R. T. Gunther (Ed.)
Publisher: Hafner Publishing Company
Year: 1968

Language: English
Commentary: Uploaded by Astrophel (feeling better) on the 27th of July 2023.
Pages: 701
City: New York
Tags: Ancient Greece; Herbal Medicine; Plants

C O N T E N T S

BOOK I
AROMATICS, OILS, OINTMENTS, TREES 1

BOOK II
LIVING CREATURES, MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCE,
CEREALS AND SHARP HERBS 93

BOOK III
ROOTS, JUICES, HERBS 232

BOOK IV
HERBS AND ROOTS 399

BOOK V
VINES AND WINES, METALLIC ORES 601

APPENDIX
DR. CHARLES DAUBENY'S IDENTIFICATIONS 661

INDEXES
I. SARACEN'S LATIN INDEX. REPRINTED FROM THE
1598 EDITION . 681
II. SUPPLEMENTAL INDEX . 695