Table 2.
Books containing unambiguous lists of Simples
| Author | Title | Place Produced or Published | Date Produced or Published | Text Used | Total Simples in Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hippocrates, ca. 460 BC – ca. 370 BC | Hippocratic Corpus, Various Works | Greece - Cos | 5th–4th- Century BC | John Riddle, “Folk Tradition and Folk Medicine: Recognition of Drugs in Classical Antiquity” in Folklore and Folk Medicines, John Scarborough, ed. Wisconsin: American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1987, pp. 47–61. | 257 |
| Dioscorides, Pedanius, ca. 49–90 AD | De Materia Medica | Roman Empire – Asia Minor | 60–78 AD | Andres de Laguna, Pedacio Dioscórides Anazarbeo [1555]. Madrid: Instituto de España, 1968–9. | 592 |
| Celsus, Aulus Cornelius, ca 25 BC – ca 50 AD | De Medicina, Book 5 | Roman Empire | 1st Century AD | A Translation of the Eight Books of Aul. Corn. Celsus on Medicine, 2nd. Ed. George Frederick Collier trans. Simpkin and Marshal, 1831. | 99 |
| Galen, ca. 130- 200 AD | De Simplicium Medicamentorum Facultatibus | Roman Empire | 2nd Century AD | Claudii Galeni de simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus libri XI. Apud Gulielmum Rouillium, 1561 | 808 |
| Paul of Aegina (ca. 625–690 AD) | De Re Medica Libri Septem, Book 7 | Egypt - Alexandria | 600s | The Seven Books of Paulus, Vol. 3. Francis Adams, trans. London: Syndenham Society of London, 1844. | 398 |
| Serapion Junior, c. 12th century | Liber de Simplici medicina | Arabia | 1100s | Serapionis medici arabis celeberrimi practica, studiosis medicinae utilissima. Andreas Alpagus Bellunensis, trans. Venice: Apud Iuntas, 1550. | 261 |
| Platerius, Mattheus 1120–1161 | Circa Instans, Book of Simple Medicines | Italy - Salerno | 1100s | Practica Io. Serapionis dicta breuiarium. Liber Serapionis de simplici medicina. Liber de simplici medicina, dictus circa instants. Practica platearii. Venetijs: Andree Toresani de Ansula per Bernadinum Vercellensem, 1503. | 207 |
| Sylvaticus, Mattheus (1285–1342) | Liber pandectarum medicinae | Italy - Salerno | 1300s | Pandectae medicinae.. Lyon: Apud Theobaldum Paganum, 1541. | 278 |
| Saladino | Compendium aromatariorum | Italy – Bologne | 1488 | Compendio de los boticarios. Alonso Rodríguez de Tudela, trans.. Valladolid, 1515. | 199 |
| Fragoso | De succedaneis medicamentis | Spain - Madrid | 1575 | De succedaneis medicamentis liber denuo auctus: eiusdem animaduersiones in quamplurima medicamenta composita. Madrid: Petrus Cosin, 1575. | 340 |
| Palacios, Félix | Palestra Pharmaceutica Chymico-Galenica | Spain – Madrid | 1706 | Palestra pharmaceutica chymico-galenica: en la qual se trata de la eleccion de los simples, sus preparaciones chymicas y galenicas y de las mas selectas composiciones antiguas y modernas. Madrid: Juan Garcia Insancon, 1706. | 488 |
| Farmacopea Espanola | Spain – Madrid | 1865 | Farmacopea Española 5th ed. Madrid: Imprenta Nacional, 1865. | 312 |