Nicander

Nicander the poet (B.C. 140) used for a still the term, like the

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

A passage from an ancient didactic poem about poisons and their remedies (the Alexipharmaca of Nicander, from the second century BC), describes these horrible symptoms:

'The Death of Socrates' 2007

Whereas water hemlock attacks the central nervous system, producing seizures – as described by Nicander – poison hemlock works on the peripheral nervous system.

'The Death of Socrates' 2007

Geoponicks, attributes no other virtue to it, than to kill mice and rats, flies and mouldwarps, and so Mizaldus, Nicander of old,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Leads toxicity to humans was first pointed out in 2000 BCE by the Ancient Greek, Nicander of Colophon.

Dying to Look Good: Are you dying to see me or is that lead in your lipstick? 2007

Magistrates, and Nicander the Colophonian have taught us.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Parmenides, the Theriaca of Nicander, and the sentences of

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Chian; Antimachus and Nicander, a Colophonion; but the philosopher

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Hegesilaos, the son of Hippocratides, the son of Leotychides, the son of Anaxilaos, the son of Archidemos, the son of Anaxandriddes, the son of Theopompos, the son of Nicander, the son of

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Nicander, Macer, and Galen, and carried home to the house great handfuls of them, whereof a young page called Rizotomos had charge; together with little mattocks, pickaxes, grubbing-hooks, cabbies, pruning-knives, and other instruments requisite for herborizing.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002