A Pompeian herbal : ancient and modern medicinal plants /

"In this book, Jashemski presents an herbal of thirty-six medicinal plants, most of them known to the ancients and still employed today. She describes each plant's contemporary medicinal uses and compares them to ancient practices as recorded in literary sources. Scientific, English, and Italian nam...

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Main Author:	Jashemski, Wilhelmina F. (Wilhelmina Feemster), 1910-2007
Other Authors:	Jashemski, Stanley A. (Photographer), Meyer, Lillian N. (Lillian Nicholson) (Illustrator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 1999.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Materia medica, Vegetable > Italy > Pompei. Medicinal plants > Italy > Pompei. Medicine, Greek and Roman. Materia medica, Vegetable. Medicinal plants. Italy > Pompei. Herbal treatments.
Online Access:	Online Access Online Access
Summary:	"In this book, Jashemski presents an herbal of thirty-six medicinal plants, most of them known to the ancients and still employed today. She describes each plant's contemporary medicinal uses and compares them to ancient practices as recorded in literary sources. Scientific, English, and Italian names and the plant's mythological associations complete the entries, while elegant, full-page portraits depict each plant visually. In her introduction, Jashemski also discusses the literary and archaeological sources used to construct the herbal, as well as the striking continuities between Roman and modern times that she has observed during more than forty years of archaeological exploration and discovery."--Jacket.