Leading scholar of medical botany, unable to concentrate in the Commentaries to Dioscorides (1554 first edition) all the herbal knowledge of his time, bringing the number of plants described by Dioscorides from 600 to 1200 and giving a description of each, and the story ' indication of the uses and medicinal properties. Always bearing in mind the teachings of the ancient authors, incorporate new plants imported from the East to the Americas and takes into consideration all the good and the folk traditions of his time pharmacopoeias. The appearance of fitografico Iconography, edited by the best engravers of the Italian school and German (Liberal Meyerbeck) is accurate and useful to the recognition of plants.
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