1176261 Iraq: A Pharmacist making medicine from honey - miniature from the \'Kitab al-hashaish\', an Arabic version of Dioscorides\'s \'De Materia Medica\', Baghdad, 1224; (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.