Pharmacy and drug lore in antiquity : Greece, Rome, Byzantium / John Scarborough.

Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2010], ©2010.

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 24 cm.

The pharmacology of sacred plants, herbs, and roots -- On medications for burns in classical antiquity -- Theoretical assumptions in Hippocratic pharmacology -- Theophrastus on herbals and herbal remedies -- Nicander's toxicology I : snakes -- Nicander's toxicology II : spiders, scorpions, insects and myriapods -- The opium poppy in Hellenistic and Roman medicine -- Roman pharmacy and the eastern drug trade : some problems illustrated by the example of aloe -- Pharmacy in Pliny's Natural history : some observations on substances and sources -- The pharmacy of Methodist medicine : the evidence of Soranus' Gynecology -- Criton, physician to Trajan : historian and pharmacist -- Pharmaceutical theory in Galen's commentaries on the Hippocratic episdemics : some observations on Roman views of Greek drug lore -- Early Byzantine pharmacology -- Herbs of the field and herbs of the garden in Byzantine medicinal pharmacy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.