To give only a few examples:Hippocrates(Epidemics) in the 5th–4th century BC,Dioscorides(Materia Medica) in the 50–70 AD), Pliny (Naturalis Historia) in 77 AD and Galen (De compositione medicamento rum secundum locos; transl. from Greek) in the second half of the 2nd century AD. For...