Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of De materia medica, a 5-volume Greek encyclopedic pharmacopeia on herbal medicine and related medicinal substances, that was widely read for more than 1,500 years.
| Born | ca. 40 |
| Died | ca. 90 |
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| Born | ca. 40 |
| Died | ca. 90 |
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Early works to 1800, Materia medica, Greek and Roman Medicine, Medical Botany, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Botany, Medical, Botany, Facsimiles, Herbals, Medicinal plants, Materia Medica, Medicine, Pre-Linnean works, Medicinal Plants, Pharmacology, History, Manuscripts, Vegetable Materia medica, Ancient Medicine, Arabic Manuscripts, Botany, medical, Greek Manuscripts, Greek World, Herbs, IllustrationsID Numbers
- OLID: OL188968A
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Alternative names
- Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης
- of Anazarbos Dioscorides Pedanius
- Dioscorides, Pedanius (of Anazarbos)
- Dioscorides Pedanius (of Anazarbos)
- Of Anazarbos Dioscorides Pedanius
- Dioscorides Pedanius (of Anazarbos )
- Pedanius Dioscorides Of Anazarbus sTAFF
- Dioscorides Pedanius
- Dioscòrides Pedani
- Dioscorides Pedanius.
- Pedanio Dioscórides
- Pedanius Dioscorides
- Dioscorides
- Dioscórides
- Dioscórides.
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