3.1 Papyrus Ebers 3.2 Dioscorides - De Materia Medica 3.3 Pliny - Naturalis Historia 4 The Middle Ages and Arab World 4.1 Albertus Magnus - De Vegetabilibus 5 Western Europe 5.1 Anglo-Saxon herbals

Contents  [hide]
1 History
2 China, India, Mexico
2.1 Shennong pen Ts’ao ching of China
2.2 Sushruta Samhita of India
2.3 Hernandez - Rerum Medicarum and the Aztecs
3 Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome
3.1 Papyrus Ebers
3.2 Dioscorides - De Materia Medica
3.3 Pliny - Naturalis Historia
4 The Middle Ages and Arab World
4.1 Albertus Magnus - De Vegetabilibus
5 Western Europe
5.1 Anglo-Saxon herbals
5.2 Anglo-Norman herbals
5.3 Fifteenth century incunabula
5.4 Fifteenth century manuscripts
5.5 Spain and Portugal - de Orta, Monardes, Hernandez
5.6 Germany - Bock, Brunfels and Fuchs
5.7 Low Countries - Dodoens, Lobel, Clusius
5.8 Italy - Mattioli, Calzolari, Alpino
5.9 England - Turner, Gerard, Parkinson, Culpeper
6 Legacy
7 See also
8 References
8.1 Footnotes
9 Bibliography
10 External links
History[edit]

The word herbal is derived from the mediaeval Latin liber herbalis ("book of herbs"):[2] it is sometimes used in contrast to the word florilegium, which is a treatise on flowers[10] with emphasis on their beauty and enjoyment rather than the herbal emphasis on their utility.[11] Much of the information found in printed herbals arose out of traditional medicine and herbal knowledge that predated the invention of writing.[12]
Before the advent of printing, herbals were produced as manuscr