Greek Medicine - Dioscorides

Illustrated page from Dioscorides' Acerca de la materia medicinal, y de los venenos mortiferos. (Salamanca: Mathias Gast, 1566). At the top of the page is a woodcut illustration of seven black rats huddled together; at the bottom is a woodcut illustration of a farm scene with a soman milking a cow on the left and a man churning butter on the right with two dogs and other livestock and a house in the background. NLM Call number WZ 240 D594dmS 1566.

Dioscorides. Acerca de la materia medicinal, y de los venenos mortiferos. (Salamanca: Mathias Gast., 1566).

This Spanish edition of Dioscorides is one of the many illustrated editions which came out in the 16th century.