50Dioscorides Publishes *De Materia Medica*

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👑 Emperor Augustus's Death and Divinization

August 19Augustus, the first Roman emperor, dies and is declared to be a god.
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🌿 Pedanius Dioscorides Begins Compiling *De Materia Medica*

Pedanius Dioscorides, Greek physician and pharmacologist (d. AD 90)
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🌿 Dioscorides Publishes *De Materia Medica*

Pedanius Dioscorides describes the medical applications of plants in De Materia Medica.
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🌿 Dioscorides Completes 'De Materia Medica'

Dioscorides writes his De Materia Medica, a treatise on the methodical treatment of disease by use of medicine (approximate date).
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➗ Menelaus of Alexandria's Activity in Mathematics

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⚕️ Death of Greek Physician Pedanius Dioscorides

Pedanius Dioscorides, Greek physician (approximate date)
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