A person that I admire
The person I admire is Pedanius Dioscorides he was a greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist and author of De Materia Medica (Greek encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances (a pharmacopeia), which was widely read for more than 1,500 years.)
He was native of Anazarbus, Cilicia, Asia Minor, probably studied medicine nearby at the school in Tarsus, which had a pharmacological emphasis, and he dedicated his medical books to Laecanius Arius, a medical practitioner there.
I admire this gentleman for the book he wrote, he was a genius when writing it, specially for the time in which he lived, this book is important because is the prime historical source of information about the medicines used by the Greeks, Romans, and other cultures of Antiquity, also De Materia Medica formed the core of the European pharmacopeia through the 19th century, suggesting that "the timelessness of Dioscorides' work resulted from an empirical tradition based on trial and error; that it worked for generation after generation despite social and cultural changes and changes in medical theory"
The person I admire is Pedanius Dioscorides he was a greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist and author of De Materia Medica (Greek encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances (a pharmacopeia), which was widely read for more than 1,500 years.)
He was native of Anazarbus, Cilicia, Asia Minor, probably studied medicine nearby at the school in Tarsus, which had a pharmacological emphasis, and he dedicated his medical books to Laecanius Arius, a medical practitioner there.
I admire this gentleman for the book he wrote, he was a genius when writing it, specially for the time in which he lived, this book is important because is the prime historical source of information about the medicines used by the Greeks, Romans, and other cultures of Antiquity, also De Materia Medica formed the core of the European pharmacopeia through the 19th century, suggesting that "the timelessness of Dioscorides' work resulted from an empirical tradition based on trial and error; that it worked for generation after generation despite social and cultural changes and changes in medical theory"
Wow, I had never heard of him, it's sounds like he was a very intelligent person.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could see that book, it must be majestic.