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Record Nr.

UNISA996199043703316

Titolo

Natural History . Volume VIII : Books 28-32 : Medical zoology / / edited by William Henry Samuel Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , 1963

ISBN

0-674-99460-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (608 pages)

Disciplina

615.3

Soggetti

Herbals - Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction - Natural History - Book XXVIII - Book XXIX - Book XXX - Book XXXI - Book XXXII - Additional Notes - Popular Medicine in Ancient Italy - List of Diseases Mentioned by Pliny - Index of Fishes.

Sommario/riassunto

Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE) produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics and metrology of the universe; world geography and ethnography; human anthropology and physiology; zoology; botany, agriculture, and horticulture; medicine; minerals, fine arts, and gemstones.