By far the most significant herbal from the ancient world was the five-volume De Materia Medica of Dioscorides, written in Greek in the late first century AD. The book recorded over 600 plant species along with their uses. Updated editions in Arabic and Latin were copied by hand over many centuries, often illustrated with exquisite drawings, and circula…
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