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Professor Scarborough brings together here fourteen of his essays on ancient drugs and pharmacy, dealing with aspects of a pharmacology and medical botany that incorporate magic, astrology, and alchemy, as well as the expected theoretical constructs of elements, qualities, and humors. Topics include toxicology and the fundamental collection of data on poisonous plants and animals, aloe in the Roman world, the career of Trajan's doctor Criton, and the pharmacology of Galen and of the Byzantine world.