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Greece / Turkey: Pedanius Dioscorides (c.40-90 BCE), Greek physician, pharmacologist and botanist. 16th centuryengraving

Pedanius Dioscorides (circa 40—90 CE) was a Greek physician, pharmacologist and botanist, the author of a 5-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances (a pharmacopeia), that was widely read for more than a thousand years. A native of Anazarbus, Cilicia, Asia Minor, Dioscorides practiced in Rome at the time of Nero. He was a surgeon with the army of the emperor, so he had the opportunity to travel extensively, seeking medicinal substances (plants and minerals) from all over the Roman and Greek world.

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Title: Greece / Turkey: Pedanius Dioscorides (c.40-90 BCE), Greek physician, pharmacologist and botanist. 16th centuryengraving

Caption: Pedanius Dioscorides (circa 40—90 CE) was a Greek physician, pharmacologist and botanist, the author of a 5-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances (a pharmacopeia), that was widely read for more than a thousand years. A native of Anazarbus, Cilicia, Asia Minor, Dioscorides practiced in Rome at the time of Nero. He was a surgeon with the army of the emperor, so he had the opportunity to travel extensively, seeking medicinal substances (plants and minerals) from all over the Roman and Greek world.

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Image size: 3663 × 4700 px | 49.3 MB

Print size: 31.0 × 39.8 cm | 1442.1 × 1850.4 in (300 dpi)

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