Syria/Turkey: 'Dioscorides Seated'. Miniature painting from a Syrian copy of Dioscorides' 'De Materia Medica', Topkapi Saray, Istanbul, 1229. Pedanius Dioscorides (c. 40-90 CE) was a Greek physician, pharmacologist and botanist, the author of a 5-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances (a pharmacopeia), that was widely read for well more than a thousand years. A native of Anazarbus, Cilicia, he practiced in Rome at the time of Nero. He was a surgeon with the emperor's army, so he had the opportunity to travel extensively and expand his medicinal knowledge.

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