BRA0853

Title

Subject

Description

Dioscorides' De materia medica was the most authoritative and influential botanical and pharmacological text prior to the work of the eighteenth-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus. The Euporista, a compilation of simple remedies, appears here in its first Latin translation, edited by Johannes Moibanus and Conrad Gessner.

Creator

Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos, Moibanus, Johannes, ed., and Gessner, Conrad, ed.

Source

BRA0853. Dioscorides Pedanius (fl. first century CE). [Euporista, (in Greek)] ad Andromachum, hoc est de curationibus morborum per medicamenta paratu facilia, libri ii. Strassburg: Josias Rihel, 1565.

Relation

MedHistory

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

Latin

Type

Pharmacological Text

Collection

Highlights from the Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection

Citation

Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos, Moibanus, Johannes, ed., and Gessner, Conrad, ed., “BRA0853,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed February 11, 2026, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1785.