A pompeian herbal ancient and modern medicinal plants pdf

1. A Pompeian Herbal: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants
Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski

2. Publisher : University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-12-15

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Author : Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
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4. "The appeal of such a work will be wide, encompassing professionals and laymen alike. The book is
the type which a visitor to Pompeii, or to Italy generally, would want to take along as a vade mecum
[guidebook]."
—Robert I. Curtis, Professor of Classics, University of Georgia
When workmen excavating the ruins of Pompeii eagerly gathered the native medicinal plants growing
there, Wilhelmina Jashemski discovered that this was another example of the continuity of life in the
shadow of Vesuvius. Many of the plants used for herbal medicine around Pompeii today are the
same ones that ancient authorities such as Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides recommended for treating
the same types of disorders.
In this book, Jashemski presents an herbal of thirty-six medicinal plants, most of them known to the
ancients and still employed today. She describes each plant's contemporary medicinal uses and
compares them to ancient practices as recorded in literary sources. Scientific, English, and Italian
names and the plant's mythological associations complete the entries, while elegant, full-page
portraits depict each plant visually.
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