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  • Saint Luke and Saint Prochorum, 9th century. Greek Manuscript, Vienna.
  • Acanthus dioscoridis L. Acanthaceae. Distribution: Iran, Iraq, southern Turkey. Herbaceous perennial flowering plant. Named for Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus, 1st century Greek physician and herbalist whose book, De Materia Medica, was the main source of herbal medicinal information for the next 1,600 years. He describes some 500 plants and their medicinal properties. His manuscript was copied and annotated over the centuries, and the earliest Greek text in existence is the illustrated Juliana Anicia Codex dated 512CE (Beck, 2005). The first English translation was made around 1650 by John Goodyear and published by Robert T. Gunther in 1934
  • Dr Thomas Bentley wearing a wig and a sword. Etching by A. Pond after P.L. Ghezzi.
  • Saint Luke. Colour etching by C.M. Metz.
  • M0007311: Manuscript illustration of treatment of a dislocated knee
  • Illustrierter Kommentar zu der Hippokrateischen Schrift / herausgegeben von Hermann Schöne.
  • M0007106: Manuscript illustration of Discorides 'Fathers of Medicine'
  • M0007108: Illustration of Discorides 'Fathers of Medicine'
  • M0007107: Illustration of Discorides 'Fathers of Medicine'
  • Dioscorides describing the mandrake. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909.
  • Dioscorides describing the mandrake. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909.
  • Dioscorides describing the mandrake. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909.
  • Dioscorides describing the mandrake. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909.
  • Galēnou hapanta = Galeni Pergameni summi semper uiri, quique primus artem medicinae uniuersam, apud priores homines obscuram & ueluti errantem, in perspicuam quandam & propriam expositionem traduxit, opera omnia / ad fidem complurium & perquam uetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atq[ue] restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint.
  • Galēnou hapanta = Galeni Pergameni summi semper uiri, quique primus artem medicinae uniuersam, apud priores homines obscuram & ueluti errantem, in perspicuam quandam & propriam expositionem traduxit, opera omnia / ad fidem complurium & perquam uetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atq[ue] restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint.
  • Galēnou hapanta = Galeni Pergameni summi semper uiri, quique primus artem medicinae uniuersam, apud priores homines obscuram & ueluti errantem, in perspicuam quandam & propriam expositionem traduxit, opera omnia / ad fidem complurium & perquam uetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atq[ue] restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint.
  • Galēnou hapanta = Galeni Pergameni summi semper uiri, quique primus artem medicinae uniuersam, apud priores homines obscuram & ueluti errantem, in perspicuam quandam & propriam expositionem traduxit, opera omnia / ad fidem complurium & perquam uetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atq[ue] restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint.
  • Galēnou hapanta = Galeni Pergameni summi semper uiri, quique primus artem medicinae uniuersam, apud priores homines obscuram & ueluti errantem, in perspicuam quandam & propriam expositionem traduxit, opera omnia / ad fidem complurium & perquam uetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atq[ue] restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint.
  • Apologetica disceptatio, qua docetur per quae loca sanguis mitti debeat in visceru[m] inflammationibus, pr[ae]sertim in pleuritide.
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].