Page from the 6th-century Vienna Dioscurides, an illuminated version of the 1st-century De Materia Medica
Materia medica (lit.: 'medical material/substance') is a Latin term from the history of pharmacy for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic properties of any substance used for healing (i.e., medications). The term derives from the title of a work by the Ancient Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides in the 1st century AD, De materia medica, 'On medical material' (Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, Peri hylēs iatrikēs, in Greek).
The term materia medica was used from the period of the Roman Empire until the 20th century,[1] but has now been generally replaced in medical education contexts by the term pharmacology. The term survives in the title of the British Medical Journal's "Materia Non Medica" column.
Materiamedica (lit.: 'medical material/substance') is a Latin term from the history of pharmacy for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic...
De materiamedica (Latin name for the Greek work Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, Peri hulēs iatrikēs, both meaning "On Medical Material") is a pharmacopoeia of medicinal...
1805, and a second collection of 65 preparations appeared in his book, MateriaMedica Pura (1810). As Hahnemann believed that large doses of drugs that caused...
was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of De materiamedica (Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, On Medical Material), a 5-volume Greek encyclopedia...
poisonous plants to farmers. His Shénnóng Běn Cǎo Jīng (神農本草經, Shennong's MateriaMedica) is considered as the oldest book on Chinese herbal medicine. It classifies...
Neijing (The Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor), and Compendium of MateriaMedica, a sixteenth-century encyclopedic work, and includes various forms of...
The Bencao gangmu, known in English as the Compendium of MateriaMedica or Great Pharmacopoeia, is an encyclopedic gathering of medicine, natural history...
Eclectic MateriaMedica is a materiamedica written[when?] by the eclectic medicine doctor Harvey Wickes Felter (co-author with John Uri Lloyd of King's...
Ming dynasty. He is the author of a 27-year work, the Compendium of MateriaMedica (Bencao Gangmu; Chinese: 本草綱目). He developed several methods for classifying...
tradition of the illustrated herbal in the first century BCE. The De MateriaMedica (c. 40–90 CE; Greek, Περί ύλης ιατρικής "Peri hules iatrikes", 'On medical...
– 20 January 1853) was a pharmacologist, author of the Elements of MateriaMedica, a standard work. He was examiner on the subject in the University of...
attributed to pre-Mongol Baghdad is the dispersed 1224 Dioscorides ( De MateriaMedica 1224). Here again, attribution to Baghdad remains tentative, and a more...
Merck's Manual of the MateriaMedica. The 192 page book which sold for US $1.00, was divided into three sections, Part I ("MateriaMedica") was an alphabetical...
metaphysical philosophy Prima Materia is, according to alchemists, the alleged primitive formless base of all matter Materiamedica, a Latin medical term for...
manuscript copy, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York of De MateriaMedica, a large herbal or work on the (mostly) medical uses of plants originally...
Dioscorides wrote a five-volume book, De materiamedica, covering over 600 plants and coining the term materiamedica. It formed the basis for many medieval...
Johann Adam Schmidt (1759–1809) in his published book Lehrbuch der MateriaMedica in 1811, and by Anotheus Seydler in 1815, in his Analecta Pharmacognostica...
mentioned by the classical authors of Islamic medicine, but lived on in the materiamedica for some centuries. In his Kitāb aṣ-Ṣaydalah (Book of Remedies) from...
is where the rational faculty manifests itself.: 110–11 Book 2 (the MateriaMedica) of the Canon alphabetically lists about 800 "simple" medical substances...
encyclopedia, De materiamedica, which listed over 600 herbal cures, forming an influential and long-lasting pharmacopoeia. De materiamedica was used extensively...
Anazarbei, de MateriaMedica, Adjectis quàm plurimis plantarum & animalium imaginibus, eodem authore, also known as Commentarii. This MateriaMedica work had...
of homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann, when translating William Cullen's Materiamedica, noticed Cullen had written that Peruvian bark was known to cure intermittent...
over 1000 recipes for medicines using over 600 medicinal plants in De materiamedica, c. 60 AD; this formed the basis of pharmacopoeias for some 1500 years...
Vita Anton. c. 36; Florus, Epitome bellorum 3.5.29; Dioscorides, De materiamedica 1:18) this plant was cultivated in the environs of Jericho (Strabo,...
compendium of materiamedica, Ben Cao Bei Yao. In the 18th century it was listed in Wu Yiluo's Ben cao cong xin ("New compilation of materiamedica"). The ethno-mycological...
main tomes used both by medicine students and expert physicians were MateriaMedica and Pharmacopoeia. Andreas Vesalius was the author of De humani corporis...
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