13th Century Print of a Physician Preparing a Cataplasm
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Framed Print of Dioscorides, "De Materia Medica", 13th Century
Page from a 1224 Arabic edition of "De Materia Medica" by the Greek physician, pharmacologist and botanist Pedanius Dioscorides (40 - 90 AD). The illustration depicts a physician and attendant preparing a cataplasm. Dioscorides served in the Roman army under emperor Nero. Like many early physicians, he depended on herbs and other substances for medicinal treatments. The thistle is one of approximately 600 plants and 1000 minerals and animal derivatives for therapeutic use he described in De Materia Medica, the first extensive pharmacopeia. © New York Public Library / Science Source
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