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Menzies made the earliest extant botanical collections in the Galápagos; five sheets, representing three endemic species, are known. Menzies's own account of the visit is also extant and is transcribed here from his manuscript journal.
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Botânica , Geografia , Manuscritos como Assunto , Materia Medica , Botânica/educação , Botânica/história , Equador/etnologia , Geografia/educação , Geografia/história , História do Século XVIII , Manuscritos como Assunto/história , Materia Medica/história , Plantas Medicinais , Viagem/história , Viagem/psicologiaAssuntos
Medicina na Literatura , Medicina nas Artes , Transtornos Mentais/história , Doenças do Sistema Nervoso/história , Epilepsia/história , História do Século XV , História do Século XVI , História do Século XVII , História Antiga , História Medieval , Humanos , Manuscritos como Assunto/história , Ópio/história , Transtornos Psicóticos/história , Rússia (pré-1917)RESUMO
"Mimi-bukuro" is a book written by Moriyasu Negishi in the Edo period. M. Negishi (1737-1815) was a magistrate in the town of Edo. He was very much interested in listening and recording many kinds of stories, which were told by the various kinds of people, such as public officers, samurais, merchants, doctors, etc. Among the stories of this book, some stories were found concerning folk medicine, medicinal substance and charms. In this report, I studied the medicines which were used in these stories. The medicines originated from zoological, botanical and mineral substances. As the results of my studies, there were zoological, botanical and mineral medicines were 13, 36 and 4 species, respectively. The examples of such medicines were as follows. Zoological samples: Felis catus, Gallus gallus domesticus, Anguilla japonica and Rapana venosa. Botanical samples: Artemisia princeps, Nicotiana tabacum, Panax ginseng, Terminaria chebula and Piper nigrum.
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Materia Medica/história , Medicina Tradicional/história , História do Século XVIII , Japão , Manuscritos como Assunto/históriaRESUMO
The contributions of Dioscorides in the field of materia medica and pharmacology are unparalleled in the history of medicine. This great botanist of the 1st century A.D. made personal observations of the specific properties of drugs and presented them through illustrations for the first time. Almost all the physician authors of Unani system of medicine from Galen to Azam Khan have quoted Dioscorides. Kitabul-Hashaish was rendered into English and arabic and published repeatedly in the West. The book has great value and is quoted widely due to its authenticity. This unique work needs to be edited critically and afterwards translated into Urdu and other languages for the benefit of the present day students and scholars.