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Medicine as the ancient world practised it, in the doctors' own words. Dioscorides gathered the plants and recorded what each one did; Galen supplied the theory of hot, cold, wet and dry that explained them. Both are in the press now, and each one opens when readers press it.

Dioscorides, De Materia Medica — interlinear cover · Discovery hands Dioscorides the mandrake
De Materia Medica
Dioscorides
c. AD 60–70 · six hundred plants, and the mandrake
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Galen, On Mixtures — interlinear cover · Galen among his drug jars in Rome
On Mixtures
Galen
c. AD 175 · hot, cold, wet and dry
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