1176200 Iraq:\'The Doctor\'s Office\'. Miniature by Abdallah ibn al-Fadl from a copy of \'Kitab al-Hashaish\', a translation of Dioscorides\'s \'De Materia Medicam\' (miniature); (add.info.: Pedanius Dioscorides (circa 40-90 AD) was a Greek physician, pharmacologist and botanist, the author of a 5-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances (a pharmacopeia), that was widely read for well more than a thousand years.); Pictures from History; out of copyright.