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The perils of patriotism : Pliny and Roman medicine / Vivian Nutton.
Nutton, Vivian.Date: 1988- Books
Plinian astronomy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / B.S. Eastwood.
Eastwood, Bruce.Date: 1986- Books
Ancient documents and contemporary life : with special reference to the Hippocratic corpus, Celsus and Pliny / by W.H.S. Jones.
Jones, W. H. S. (William Henry Samuel), 1876-1963.Date: 1953- Books
The elder Pliny on the human animal : Natural history, book 7 / translated with introduction and historical commentary by Mary Beagon.
Pliny, the Elder.Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
The elder Pliny's chapters on chemical subjects / edited, with translation and notes, by Kenneth C. Bailey.
Pliny, the Elder.Date: 1929-1932- Archives and manuscripts
Explanatory notes by George Fraser
Date: 2011Reference: PP/GRF/H.38Part of: Fraser, George Robert (1932-)- Books
Education in ancient Rome : from the elder Cato to the younger Pliny / Stanley F. Bonner.
Bonner, Stanley F. (Stanley Frederick)Date: 1977- Pictures
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Figures representing the investigation of nature; in the background, Pliny the elder being killed while investigating Vesuvius during its eruption. Engraving by J. Wangner after G. Eichler the younger, ca. 1759.
Eichler, Gottfried, 1715-1770.Date: [between 1758 and 1760?]Reference: 92i- Digital Images
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Origanum dictamnus L. Lamiaceae Dittany of Crete, Hop marjoram. Distribution: Crete. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘... hastens travail [labour] in women, provokes the Terms [menstruation] . See the Leaves.’ Under 'Leaves' he writes: ‘Dictamny, or Dittany of Creet, ... brings away dead children, hastens womens travail, brings away the afterbirth, the very smell of it drives away venomous beasts, so deadly an enemy is it to poison, it’s an admirable remedy against wounds and Gunshot, wounds made with poisoned weapons, draws out splinters, broken bones etc. They say the goats and deers in Creet, being wounded with arrows, eat this herb, which makes the arrows fall out of themselves.' Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (c. 100 AD, trans. Beck, 2005), Pliny the Elder’s Natural History and Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants all have this information, as does Vergil’s Aeneid where he recounts how Venus produced it when her son, Aeneas, had received a deadly wound from an arrow, which fell out on its own when the wound was washed with it (Jashemski, 1999). Dioscorides attributes the same property to ‘Tragium’ or ‘Tragion’ which is probably Hypericum hircinum (a St. John’s Wort): ‘Tragium grows in Crete only ... the leaves and the seed and the tear, being laid on with wine doe draw out arrow heads and splinteres and all things fastened within ... They say also that ye wild goats having been shot, and then feeding upon this herb doe cast out ye arrows.’ . It has hairy leaves, in common with many 'vulnaries', and its alleged ability to heal probably has its origin in the ability of platelets to coagulate more easily on the hairs (in the same way that cotton wool is applied to a shaving cut to hasten clotting). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
Consilium de tuenda valetudine / Antonii Nigri medici Braunsuigensis.
Niger, Antonius, -1555Date: 1573- Books
Historia naturalis / [Pliny].
Pliny, the Elder.Date: 1481- Books
Medicina Plinii / [Pliny].
Pliny, the ElderDate: 1509- Books
Historiae mundi libri XXXVII / [Pliny].
Pliny, the ElderDate: 1561- Books
De naturali hystoria diligentissime castigatus / [Pliny].
Pliny, the Elder.Date: 12 Dec. 1496- Books
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Historiae mundi tomus quartus. Quo decem postremi libri a vicesimoseptimo continentur / [Pliny].
Pliny, the ElderDate: 1560- Books
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Historiae naturalis libri XXXVII. Ad optimorum librorum fidem editi cum indice rerum / [Pliny].
Pliny, the ElderDate: 1830- Books
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Historiae naturalis libri XXXVII. Ad optimorum librorum fidem editi cum indice rerum / [Pliny].
Pliny, the ElderDate: 1830- Books
Vyf boecken. Handelende van de nature, I. Van de menschen. II. Van de ... dieren. III. Van de vogelen. IV. Van de ... ongedierten. V. Van de visschen ... etc. ... Hier zijn by-gevoeght de schriften van verscheyden andere oude autheuren, de natuur der dieren aengaende. En nu desen laetsten druck wel het vierde part vermeerdert, uyt verscheyden nieuwe schryvers en eygen ondervindinge / [Pliny].
Pliny, the ElderDate: 1703- Books
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Medicina Plinii / [Pliny].
Pliny, the Elder.Date: 1509- Books
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Historiae mundi libri XXXVII / [Pliny].
Pliny, the Elder.Date: 1561- Books
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The natural history of pigeons / Illustrated by thirty-two plates, coloured, and numerous woodcuts. With memoir of Pliny by Andrew Crichton.
Selby, Prideaux John, 1788-1867.Date: 1835- Books
L'Histoire du monde / ... Collationnee et corrigee sur plusieurs vieux exemplaires latins, tant imprimez qu'escrits à la main, et enrichie d'annotations ... A quoy a esté adjousté un traité des poix et mesures antiques reduites à la façon des François ... Le tout mis en françois, par Antoine Du Pinet ... second impression ... reveu et orné de plusieurs riches annotations.
Pliny, the ElderDate: 1584-1566- Books
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Selecta quædam ex C. Plinii Secundi historia naturali, ad usum scholarum accommodata.
Pliny, the Elder.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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C. Plinii Secundi historiae naturalis ad Titum imperatorem praefatio. Ex Mss. & veteri editione recensuit & notis illustravit David Durandus.
Pliny, the Elder.Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]- Books
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Histoire de la peinture ancienne, extraite de l'hist. naturelle de Pline, liv. XXXV. Avec le texte Latin, corrigé sur les Mss. de Vossius & sur la I. ed. de Venise, & éclairci par des remarques nouvelles.
Pliny, the Elder.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]