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 | #579123 in Books |  2011-03-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.74 x5.98l,1.07 | File type: PDF | 328 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Dioscorides' materia medica|By Jole Shackelford|This book is now a classic in the history of pharmacy. Some historians balk at the use of modern chemical analysis of historical materials and may therefore doubt some of the tentative conclusions Riddle arrives at about specific drugs, but his basic methodology will stand the test of time. More importantly, his insight into Dios|About the Author|John M. Riddle is Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

For 1,600 years Dioscorides (ca. AD 40–80) was regarded as the foremost authority on drugs. He knew mild laxatives and strong purgatives, analgesics for headaches, antiseptics for wounds, emetics to rid one of ingested poisons, chemotherapy agents for cancer treatments, and even oral contraceptives. Why, then, have his works remained obscure in recent centuries? Because of one small oversight (Dioscorides himself thought it was self-evident): he failed to descri...

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