The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Pedanius Dioscorides (c. 40 - c. 90)
Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of De Materia Medica, an encyclopedia of herbal medicine and medicinal substances. Contains "descriptions of approximately 500 medicinal plants (plus some for flavorings and ointments) with listing of ailments for which they were said to have curative qualities" (Isely 11). Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199545568.001.0001/acref-9780199545568-e-2232?rskey=ZZB7qc&result=5 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedanius_Dioscorides BotanistLinked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - De Materia Medica.
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - De Materia Medica: Being an Herbal with Many Other Medicinal Materials.
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Materia medica.
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides: Illustrated by a Byzantine, A. D. 512.
as Subject of/in a document - One Hundred and One Botanists.
as Subject of/in a document - Petri Andreae Matthioli Medici Senensis Commentarii, in Libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, de Materia Medica, Adjectis quàm plurimis plantarum & animalium imaginibus, eodem authore, also known as Commentarii.
References in Documents:
12. A Comment of
The Broath of this Shell-Fish is affirmed by
to be both Laxative and Diuretick. They have a kind of
biting Pepper; and are therefore
called, by the
French, Des
Flammes: and the
son, call
them, Peverazas. (b)b)
That which
saith Sugar: saving that,
whereas this is
made of the Juyce expressed and boil'd;
that of the Ancients,
as is likely, was only the Tears;
which
bursting out of the Cane, as the Gums or Milks of
Plants are used to do, were thereupon
harden'd into a pure
white Sugar. That the Sugar of the Ancients
was the
simple Concreted Juyce of a Cane, He well conjectures:
and what is above said of
the Mambu, may argue as much.
But that
it was the Juyce or Tears of the Sugar-Cane,
he
proves not. Nor, I think, could be, if, as is supposed, it
was, like Salt, friable, and hard. And
in affirming our Sugar
to be the same for substance with that of the Ancients, he
much mistakes; that being the simple Juyce of the Cane,
this a compounded Thing, always
mixed either with the
Salt of Lime, or of Ashes; sometimes of Animals too.
b)
b)
2. c. 18
of a brown Bay, and of a softish and light substance;
the top, which is broadest, above three inches over, and flat;
divided into about twenty round and open Cells, almost
like an
Honey-Comb. In each Cell is contained a
Beanor
Nut, alike colour'd, of an Oval shape, as big as a small
Akorn, and in the same manner pointed at the top. See
also the Figure in
Alcyonium.