CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Dioscorides’s De materia medica The Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides, of Anazarbus in Asia Minor, wrote a five-volume treatise concerning medical matters, entitled in Greek or De materia medica in Latin.

Detailed explanation-2: -A materia medica is comprised of individual monographs. A monograph is an in-depth study into one plant. For example, my materia medica on lavender Medicinal Properties of Lavender. Often materia medicas will have images of the plant, for easy identification.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pedanius Dioscorides, (born c. ad 40, Anazarbus, Cilicia-died c. 90), Greek physician and pharmacologist whose work De materia medica was the foremost classical source of modern botanical terminology and the leading pharmacological text for 16 centuries.

Detailed explanation-4: -Published in two volumes in 1805, Hahnemann’s Latin work Fragmenta de viribus medicamentorum is the first materia medica in the history of homoeopathy. This article examines Hahnemann’s use of his own published works in his early medical practice, by focusing on a single patient file from the medical casebooks.