Asterion SchoenostrophoninHerbitageAggregator Paduanus de medicinis simplicibus, 1470 Rusch printingOriginally completed around 1355, the Aggregator Paduanus is broad in scope and scale. In its day, the Aggregator was the ultimate medical…Sep 26, 2018Sep 26, 2018
Asterion SchoenostrophoninHerbitageIn 1473 Adolf Rusch prints Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine in LatinAvicenna (980–1037AD) was a prolific Persian writer and one of the most learned men of his era. Around 1025AD he finished a lengthy…Jul 25, 2018Jul 25, 2018
Asterion SchoenostrophoninHerbitageThe 1473 first printing of Serapion the Younger’s Liber aggregatus in medicinis simplicibus refers…Serapion the Younger’s Liber aggregatus was likely composed by several authors in what remained of Muslim Spain no later than 1248 AD[1]…Jun 30, 2018Jun 30, 2018
Asterion SchoenostrophoninHerbitageMeydenbach’s original 1491 printing of the Latin Ortus Sanitatis listed Cannabis as a remedyThis series of herbals was first printed, in Latin, by Meydenbach at Mainz in 1491. The Ortus Sanitatis (garden of health) was not a direct…Jun 25, 2018Jun 25, 2018
Asterion SchoenostrophoninHerbitageSchoffer’s 1485 German Herbarius steps up the gameIn 1485 Peter Schoffer published a revised and expanded herbal in German. With over twice as many figures and 435 chapters, this was not…Jun 24, 2018Jun 24, 2018
Asterion SchoenostrophoninHerbitage1484: Peter Schoeffer publishes Germany’s first press-printed Herbal from his Gutenberg and it…Peter Schoeffer was John Gutenburg’s apprentice in the early days of press printing. By 1484 he’d been at it for decades in Mainz and had…Jun 22, 2018Jun 22, 2018
Asterion SchoenostrophoninHerbitageAround AD 1075, Simeon Seth prescribes cannabis to Emperor Michael VII DoukasToday we’re taking note of Simeon Seth’s (AD 1003 — 1081) reference to cannabis in a 1538 Swiss printing of his Syntagma de cibariorum…Jun 21, 2018Jun 21, 2018
Asterion SchoenostrophoninHerbitageAround 70 years after the birth of Christ, Dioscorides prescribes cannabisThis is Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarba, as depicted in a 16th century geographic encyclopedia:Jun 18, 2018Jun 18, 2018
