book chapter
Natural history in ten volumes: Volume VI. Libri XX-XXIII
Harvard University Press ; William Heinemann • Cambridge • Published In 1969 • Pages: i-xxvi, 1-157, 212-223, 293-532
By: Pliny, the Elder, Jones, W. H. S. (William Henry Samuel).
Abstract
This document is an exhaustive cataloguing of the medicinal uses to which plants had been put. Plinys sources were mainly Greek and Roman, and the information is not limited to Roman ethnobotany.
- culture
- Imperial Romans
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Europe
- Sub Region
- Southern Europe
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Government Official
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; Marlene Martin ; 1977-1978
- Field Date
- ca. 45-77
- Coverage Date
- ca. 45-77 A.D.
- Coverage Place
- Rome, Italy
- Notes
- Pliny [Gaius Plinius Secundus]
- With an English translation by W. H. S. Jones
- PHARMACEUTICALS (278) has been used for discussions of the medicinal uses of plants, and researchers interested in treatments for diseases and bodily injuries, preventive medicine, and the effects plants were presumed to have on the human body should consult PHARMACEUTICALS (278). Footnotes that did not add substantial information were not indexed. Footnotes may be found in LITERARY TEXTS (539) on the page preceding the page of the text
- Only pages i-xxvi, 1-157, 212-223, and 293-532re included
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 74015292
- LCSH
- Natural history--Pre-Linnean works