Book ID: 83214
Jashemski, Wilhemina M.F.
A Pompeian Herbal: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants. 1999. illus. XIII, 106 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
A herbal of thirty-six medicinal plants, most of them known to theancients and still employed today. Description of each plant'scontemporary medicinal uses and comparison to ancient practices asrecorded in literary sources. Scientific, English and Italian names.Mythological associations of the plants. Each plant illustrated.