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A Pompeian Herbal: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants
University of Texas Press, 1999 Paper: 978-0-292-74060-0 | Cloth: 978-0-292-74061-7 | eISBN: 978-1-4773-0267-5 Library of Congress Classification RS177.I8J37 1999 Dewey Decimal Classification 615.32109377
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
When workmen excavating the ruins of Pompeii eagerly gathered the native medicinal plants growing there, Wilhelmina Jashemski discovered that this was another example of the continuity of life in the shadow of Vesuvius. Many of the plants used for herbal medicine around Pompeii today are the same ones that ancient authorities such as Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides recommended for treating the same types of disorders. In this book, Jashemski presents an herbal of thirty-six medicinal plants, most of them known to the ancients and still employed today. She describes each plant's contemporary medicinal uses and compares them to ancient practices as recorded in literary sources. Scientific, English, and Italian names and the plant's mythological associations complete the entries, while elegant, full-page portraits depict each plant visually. See other books on: Italy | Materia medica, Vegetable | Medicinal plants | Medicine, Greek and Roman | Plants See other titles from University of Texas Press |
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A Pompeian Herbal: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Texas Press, 1999
Paper: 978-0-292-74060-0
Cloth: 978-0-292-74061-7
eISBN: 978-1-4773-0267-5
Paper: 978-0-292-74060-0
Cloth: 978-0-292-74061-7
eISBN: 978-1-4773-0267-5
When workmen excavating the ruins of Pompeii eagerly gathered the native medicinal plants growing there, Wilhelmina Jashemski discovered that this was another example of the continuity of life in the shadow of Vesuvius. Many of the plants used for herbal medicine around Pompeii today are the same ones that ancient authorities such as Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides recommended for treating the same types of disorders.
In this book, Jashemski presents an herbal of thirty-six medicinal plants, most of them known to the ancients and still employed today. She describes each plant's contemporary medicinal uses and compares them to ancient practices as recorded in literary sources. Scientific, English, and Italian names and the plant's mythological associations complete the entries, while elegant, full-page portraits depict each plant visually.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
