Pharmacognosy in faces - Pharmacognosy

History of Pharmacognosy: People who made history

Here you will see living people with their worldview, their character (not always simple), their habits, etc.
Look at those who made the history of pharmacognosy, and about whom we tell students so much in lectures!
Find out how long they lived in this world, what they were like, what they lived for.

Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder is the author of “Natural History” (“Historia Naturalis”) in 37 books – a kind of encyclopedia of natural science knowledge of antiquity. Pliny’s aphorism: “We are denied a long life; let us leave works that will prove that we lived!”

Dioscorides Pedanius

Dioscorides main work is De materia medica (“On Medical Substances”). Dioscorides’ aphorism: “The last thing we shed before death is the garments of glory.”

Theophrastus

He is the author of two books on plants: “History of Plants” and “Causes of Plants”, in which the physiology and geography of about 500 species of medicinal plants are classified and described.
Theophrastus’ aphorism: “If you are uneducated and silent, you behave wisely; if you are educated and silent, you are foolish.”