Ancient Medicine: Lamb’s Ear

Ancient Medicine: Lamb’s Ear

We know Lamb’s Ear as the soft, silvery-green leaves in a flower garden that are fun to pick and are especially good for children to “pet”. But once upon a time, Lamb’s Ear was also known as Woundwort, because the leaves were believed to have...
Dioscorides – Father of Modern Pharmacology

Dioscorides – Father of Modern Pharmacology

Pedanius Dioscorides was a Greek physician, born about 30 AD in Asia Minor (now modern Turkey). Two thousand years after his birth he is still remembered for the major contribution he made to medicine and pharmacology. Dioscorides was attached to the Roman Empire...
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