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Dioscorides
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<p>Pedanius Dioscorides , "the father of <a href="/facts/Pharmacognosy/X3rrkkA9">pharmacognosy</a>", was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of <i><a href="/facts/De_materia_medica/lBNEHv9C">De materia medica</a></i> (in the original <a href="/facts/Ancient_Greek_language/LIK7NlUh">Ancient Greek</a>: Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, <i>Peri hulēs iatrikēs</i>, both meaning "On <a href="/facts/Materia_medica/ejgfBN5U">Medical Material</a>") , a 5-volume Greek encyclopedic <a href="/facts/Pharmacopeia/CCNj7RSM">pharmacopeia</a> on herbal medicine and related medicinal substances, that was widely read for more than 1,500 years. For almost two millennia Dioscorides was regarded as the most prominent writer on plants and plant drugs. </p>