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• Title:
  Pharmaceutical Terminology in Ancient and Medieval Time – andrachne, chrysocolla and Others
• Creator:
  Zipser, Barbara;
  Scott, Andrew C.;
  Allkin, Robert;
  Gan, Peretz;
  Lardos, Andreas;
  Lazarou, Rebecca;
  Lev, Efraim;
  Nesbitt, Mark;
  Patmore, Kristina
• Contributor:
  Zipser, Barbara - Royal Holloway, University of London;
  Scott, Andrew C. - Royal Holloway, University of London;
  Allkin, Robert - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew;
  Gan, Peretz - Al Alim Medicinal Herb Center, Israel;
  Lardos, Andreas - Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Switzerland;
  Lazarou, Rebecca - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew;
  Lev, Efraim - University of Haifa;
  Nesbitt, Mark - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew;
  Patmore, Kristina - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew;
  Zipser, Barbara - Barbara.Zipser@rhul.ac.uk;
  Scott, Andrew C. - a.scott@rhul.ac.uk;
  Allkin, Robert - b.allkin@kew.org;
  Gan, Peretz - alalim.p@gmail.com;
  Lardos, Andreas - andreas.lardos@zhaw.ch;
  Lazarou, Rebecca - rebecca@rebeccalazarou.com;
  Lev, Efraim - elev@univ.haifa.ac.il;
  Nesbitt, Mark - M.Nesbitt@kew.org;
  Patmore, Kristina - K.Patmore@kew.org
• Description:
  Ancient and medieval pharmacological and medical texts contain a substantial amount of plant and mineral names. In some cases, the identification is straightforward. But for the majority of the data, we are unable to identify these ingredients with high certainty. In this paper, we discuss a selection of plant and mineral names both from a humanities and sciences point of view. In one case, the scientists were even able to examine a plant in situ. The conclusion of our paper is that a close collaboration between sciences and humanities is essential to avoid mistakes in the identification of materia medica.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Date:
  2024.03.06;
  2023.12.30
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Studia Ceranea;
  13
• Subject:
  pharmacognosy;
  Byzantine medicine;
  medicinal plants;
  medicinal minerals;
  medical history;
  Greek medicine;
  'materia medica'
• Identifier:
  2084-140X;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/50705 ;
  2449-8378;
  10.18778/2084-140X.13.49
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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