On Medical Materials in Six Books

English translations of this work exist from another source language, but this specific text has never been translated.

The work 'De Medicinali materia' (or 'De Materia Medica') by Dioscorides is a famous ancient Greek text. While the original Greek text has been translated into English (e.g., the 1655 Goodyer translation and the 2005 Beck translation), the specific 1550 Latin edition by Jean Ruel (Ioannes Ruellius) has not been translated into English. The Latin version was a standard Renaissance medical text, but modern scholarship focuses on the Greek original. Therefore, this is a first translation from the Latin source.

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