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Natural history in ten volumesbook chapter 1969 • Pliny, the Elder & Jones, W. H. S. (William Henry Samuel)
Imperial Romans • Europe > Southern Europe
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....Natural history in ten volumesbook chapter 1966 • Pliny, the Elder & Jones, W. H. S. (William Henry Samuel)
Imperial Romans • Europe > Southern Europe
This is a continuation of Plinys encyclopedic treatment of the medicinal uses of plants, begun in volume VI (15: Pliny this field). Book XXIV is concerned with the medicinal uses of trees and their products; Book XXV with plants used specifically for...