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A collection of journal articles published from the 1960s through the 1980s, by a pioneering researcher in the study of pre-modern texts on plants. Representative articles are organized topically and chronologically, covering the scope of ancient and medieval pharmacy. Topics include Hippocratic pharmacology, medicinal plants and folk remedies in Pliny's Historia naturalis , Materia Medica and philosophic theory in Aretaeus, Byzantine botanical lexicography, Albertus Magnus and medieval herbalism, and vegetable gums and resins in medieval recipe literature. A companion volume will deal with special areas of medieval herbs and later medieval recipe literature. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
