Ca. 50-70CE

Greek physician Dioscorides writes his five-volume pharmacopeia, De Materia Medica, that will be translated into Latin and Arabic over the next 15 centuries. It is “the prime historical source of information about the medicines used by the Greeks, Romans, and other cultures of antiquity. . . . It formed the core of the European pharmacopeia through the 19th century” (Upson-Saia, loc 968ff.; NYU Dentistry Rare Books).