Author: Francis Peyre PorcherPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural
Author: Francis Peyre PorcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Medical Astrology
Author: Heinrich DaathPublisher: Health Research Books
ISBN: 9780787302375
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Contents: Basic Elements; Anatomical Sign-rulership; Planetary Powers & Principles Biodynamic Action of Planets; How the Planets Crystallise in Organic & Inorganic Life; Tonicity, Atonicity & Perversion; etc.
Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica
Author: William BoerickePublisher:
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Category : Homeopathic pharmacopoeias
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Medical Flora, Or Manual of the Medical Botany of the United States of North America
Author: Constantine Samuel RafinesquePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
A Manual of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacology
Author: Alexander Leslie BlackwoodPublisher:
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Category : Chemotherapy
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Diary of the Rev. John Ward, A. M.
Author: John WardDe Materia Medica
Author: Pedanius DioscoridesPublisher: Ibidis Press
ISBN: 9780620234351
Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 939
Book Description
The American Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia
Author: Joseph T. O'ConnorPublisher:
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Category : Homeopathic pharmacopoeias
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
An Illustrated History of the Herbals
Author: Frank J. AndersonPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1583481141
Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated history of herbal texts throughout the world from ancient cultures through the seventeenth century. An “herbal” by definition is a book that is descriptive of plants and the term did not come into use until the sixteenth century. The production of herbals is closely connected to the history of early printing and offers the finest examples of this art and craft. However, the earliest records of ancient Egypt, Sumer and China all reflect a tradition of works of botanicals and their medicinal properties long before printing. The author’s survey begins with a work called De materia medica written in the first century which is extant and, as the final authority on pharmacy for 1500 years, is the most important herbal ever written. The study of herbals offers a rich history of the culture and beliefs from the folklore and science of medieval and classical worlds.
Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine
Author: John M. RiddlePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292729847
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
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 describe his method for organizing drugs by their affinities. This omission led medical authorities to use his materials as a guide to pharmacy while overlooking Dioscorides' most valuable contribution—his empirically derived method for observing and classifying drugs by clinical testing. Dioscorides' De materia medica, a five-volume work, was written in the first century. Here revealed for the first time is the thesis that Dioscorides wrote more than a lengthy guide book. He wrote a great work of science. He had said that he discovered the natural order and would demonstrate it by his arrangement of drugs from plants, minerals, and animals. Until John M. Riddle's pathfinding study, no one saw the genius of his system. Botanists from the eighteenth century often attempted to find his unexplained method by identifying the sequences of his plants according to the Linnean system but, while there are certain patterns, there remained inexplicable incoherencies. However, Dioscorides' natural order as set down in De materia medica was determined by drug affinities as detected by his acute, clinical ability to observe drug reactions in and on the body. So remarkable was his ability to see relationships that, in some cases, he saw what we know to be common chemicals shared by plants of the same and related species and other natural product drugs from animal and mineral sources. Western European and Islamic medicine considered Dioscorides the foremost authority on drugs, just as Hippocrates is regarded as the Father of Medicine. They saw him point the way but only described the end of his finger, despite the fact that in the sixteenth century alone there were over one hundred books published on him. If he had explained what he thought to be self-evident, then science, especially chemistry and medicine, would almost certainly have developed differently. In this culmination of over twenty years of research, Riddle employs modern science and anthropological studies innovatively and cautiously to demonstrate the substance to Dioscorides' authority in medicine.