Dioscorides
Greek physician and pharmacologist. Author of De Materia Medica, a foundational text on herbal medicine and pharmacology.
Works
Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)
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On the Work of the Sixth Day
— Cited from Book II, chapter 56, on the salamander not surviving fire
"Dioscorides, Book II, chapter 56, where Mattioli says he himself experienced this, having thrown many salamanders into fire"