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Macer Floridus
''De Viribus Herbarum'' (On the properties of plants), also known by the author's pseudonym, Macer Floridus, is a Latin hexameter poem on the properties of herbs. It was written, probably by Odo of Meung-sur-Loire, in the 11th century. It was still in scholarly use as late as the 16th century, but was superseded by more comprehensive herbals. Translations The herbal was translated first into Hebrew, then also German, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Italian, and Spanish. A Middle English version of the poem was translated by John Lelamour, a schoolmaster from Hereford, in the fourteenth century. Sources The original poem lists 77 plants and their properties; it is accompanied by 20 additional items known as " Spuria", which were added later. The ultimate source of most of the information is Pliny's '' Historia naturalis'', though Odo may have come to this information second-hand, possibly through the Roman writer Gargilius Martialis. See also * Regimen sanitati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macer Floridius, De Viribus Herbarum, 16th Century Wellcome M0011837
A macer is an officer who bears a ceremonial mace. Macer is a Roman cognomen meaning "lean". * Aemilius Macer was a Roman poet of the late Republic. * Aemilius Macer (jurist) a Roman jurist of the third century AD. * Quintus Baebius Macer, Roman senator of first and second centuries AD. * Gaius Caesonius Macer Rufinianus, Roman military officer of the second century AD. * Lucius Caesonius Lucillus Macer Rufinianus, Roman senator and military officer of the third century AD. * Publius Calpurnius Macer Caulius Rufus, Roman senator of the second century AD. * Lucius Clodius Macer was a legatus of the Roman Empire in Africa in the time of Nero. * Gaius Licinius Macer (d. 66 BC), was an official and annalist of ancient Rome. * Licinius Macer Calvus, Roman orator and poet of the first century BC. * Martius Macer, Roman general who commanded a force of gladiators under Otho. Also, Macer may refer to: * The Macer Floridus, an eleventh-century herbal. * Karlee Macer, Democratic member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gargilius Martialis
Quintus Gargilius Martialis () was a third-century Roman writer on horticulture, botany, and medicine. He has been identified by some with the military commander of the same name, mentioned in a Latin inscription of 260 as having lost his life in the colony of Auzia in Mauretania Caesariensis.''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'', viii, 9047. Considerable fragments of his work (probably called ''De hortis''), which treated of the cultivation of trees and vegetables, and also of their medicinal properties, have survived, chiefly in the body of and as an appendix to the '' Medicina Plinii'' (an anonymous 4th century handbook of medical recipes based upon Pliny the Elder, '' Naturalis Historiae'', xx–xxxii). Extant sections treat of apples, peaches, quinces, citrons, almonds, chestnuts, parsnips, and various other edibles, with an emphasis on the medical effects they have on the body (quoting Dioscorides sometimes). Gargilius also wrote a treatise on the tending of cattle (). A biogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medical Texts
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease, typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others. Medicine has been practiced since prehistoric times, and for most of this time it was an art (an area of creativity and skill), frequently having connections to the religious and philosophical beliefs of local culture. For example, a medicine man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an anci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbals
A herbal is a book containing the names and descriptions of plants, usually with information on their medicinal, tonic, culinary, toxic, hallucinatory, aromatic, or magical powers, and the legends associated with them.Arber, p. 14. A herbal may also classify the plants it describes, may give recipes for herbal extracts, tinctures, or potions, and sometimes include mineral and animal medicaments in addition to those obtained from plants. Herbals were often illustrated to assist plant identification.Anderson, p. 2. Herbals were among the first literature produced in Ancient Egypt, China, India, and Europe as the medical wisdom of the day accumulated by herbalists, apothecaries and physicians. Herbals were also among the first books to be printed in both China and Europe. In Western Europe herbals flourished for two centuries following the introduction of moveable type (c. 1470–1670). In the late 17th century, the rise of modern chemistry, toxicology and pharmacology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
11th-century Poems
The 11th century is the period from 1001 (represented by the Roman numerals MI) through 1100 (MC) in accordance with the Julian calendar, and the 1st century of the 2nd millennium. In the history of Europe, this period is considered the early part of the High Middle Ages. There was, after a brief ascendancy, a sudden decline of Byzantine power and a rise of Norman domination over much of Europe, along with the prominent role in Europe of notably influential popes. Christendom experienced a formal schism in this century which had been developing over previous centuries between the Latin West and Byzantine East, causing a split in its two largest denominations to this day: Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. In Song dynasty China and the classical Islamic world, this century marked the high point for both classical Chinese civilization, science and technology, and classical Islamic science, philosophy, technology and literature. Rival political factions at the Song dynast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
