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.
- 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]
- 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
- With an English translation by W. H. S. Jones
- Includes bibliographical references
- Only pages i-xxvi, 1-157, 212-223, and 293-532re included
- LCCN
- 74015292
- LCSH
- Natural history--Pre-Linnean works