 | P. L. Jacob - 1878 - 635 Seiten
...exiled from Athens and Alexandria. There were translated into Syriac the works of Aristotle and Galen, the two lights of Greece and of Rome, whom the Arabs...Dioscorides are a mass of nonsense, and for the most part unintelligible. Constantine of Africa first introduced into Europe certain Arab works upon the materia... | |
 | P. L. Jacob - 1878 - 630 Seiten
...exiled from Athens and Alexandria. There were translated into Syriac the works of Aristotle and Galen, the two lights of Greece and of Rome, whom the Arabs...Dioscorides are a mass of nonsense, and for the most part unintelligible. Constantino of Africa first introduced into Europe certain Arab works upon the materia... | |
 | Paul Lacroix - 1878 - 660 Seiten
...scoured Bactriana and Sogdiana in search of medicines, and especially of vegetable preparations. Mesu4 wrote his treatise on Medicine (" De Re Medica"),...Dioscorides are a mass of nonsense, and for the most part unintelligible. Constantino of Africa first introduced into Europe certain Arab works upon the materia... | |
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Arab doctors recommended the moderate use of cassia, senna, and tamarinds : a quantity of plants useful for medicinal purposes were brought from India, Persia, and Syria by Rhazes. At the same time Serapion the younger commentated Dioscorides, and added... 