25 Facts About Materia medica

Term materia medica was used from the period of the Roman Empire until the 20th century, but has now been generally replaced in medical education contexts by the term pharmacology.

Imhotep's materia medica consisted of procedures for treating head and torso injuries, tending of wounds, and prevention and curing of infections, as well as advanced principles of hygiene.

Indian materia medica included knowledge of plants, where they grow in all season, methods for storage and shelf life of harvested materials.

Materia medica founded a school of medicine that focused on treating the causes of disease rather than its symptoms.

Materia medica wrote a treatise entitled Historia Plantarium about 300 BC.

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Materia medica compiled an extensive record of the medical knowledge of his day and added his own observations.

Materia medica wrote on the structure of organs, but not their uses; the pulse and its association with respiration; the arteries and the movement of blood; and the uses of theriacs.

Materia medica's work was rediscovered in the 15th century and became the authority on medicine and healing for the next two centuries.

Materia medica's medicine was based on the regulation of the four humors and their properties .

Materia medica did much to popularize the connection between Greek and Arabic medicine, translating works by Hippocrates, Aristotle and Galen into Arabic.

Materia medica was the first to describe parasitic infection, to use urine for diagnostic purposes and discouraged physicians from the practice of surgery because it was too base and manual.

Materia medica sought to avoid mistakes by gathering as many manuscripts as he could for checking the texts.

Materia medica claimed to have corrected 5000 mistakes between two editions of Pliny the Elder's Naturalis historia, a work he found very similar to Materia Medica, for which he used at least two editions as well.

Materia medica perfected the Latin translation of the Materia Medica directly from the "princeps" edition.

Materia medica tried to develop a translation joining philology, botany and medicine.

Materia medica published editions until 1537, printed by Simon de Colines.

Materia medica was an Arabist, and translated works of Avicena.

Materia medica published a translation of De Materia Medica into Italian in 1544 and ten years later published a work in Latin with all the plants of Dioscorides and 562 woodcut illustrations.

Materia medica frequently tested the effects of poisonous plants on prisoners in order to popularize his works.

Materia medica affirmed that Jean Ruel had declared some information in the lycopsis chapter of his Materia Medica.

Materia medica's translation was made from one of the Latin editions of Jean Ruel.

Materia medica includes some animal and mineral products but only those related to simple medicines, that is, animal and mineral products that are medicine or are parts of a medical compound.

Materia medica refers to anecdotes, adds commentaries on the plants, provides their synonyms in different languages, and explains their uses in the 16th century.

Materia medica had problems with Mattioli for using some of his commentaries without mentioning him.

Materia medica gave lectures on Dioscorides at the University of Wittenberg, which experts from the University attended.

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