El. knyga: Herbs and Herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Contents: Introduction, John M. Riddle; Medieval Herbals: Medieval
reception of classical plant names; The herbal as a medical document;
Medieval herbals and their development; The theoretical bases of medieval
herbalism; Magiferous plants and magic in medieval medical botany; Late
Medieval Rezeptliteratur: Botanical data and late medieval Rezeptliteratur;
Rezeptliteratur as Fachliteratur; ...findet man in den apotecken¯: notices
concerning the availability of medicamenta in medieval Fachliteratur;
Renaissance Italy and Germany: Dioscorides and Renaissance materia medica;
The botanico-medical background of Baptista Fieras Coena de herbarum
virtutibus; Hans von Gersdorff and some anonymous Strassburg apothecaries;
Camerarius contributions to medicine and pharmacy observations on his De
theriacis et mithridateis commentariolus; P. A. Mattioli and some Renaissance
editions of Dioscorides; P. A. Mattioli: sixteenth-century commentator on
Dioscorides; Species Studies: The plant called Moly; Squill in ancient and
medieval materia medica with special reference to its employment for dropsy;
The multiple uses of dill (Anethum graveolens L.) in medieval medicine; Index.

Jerry Stannard, Katherine E. Stannard