Medicinal Plants of Antiquity: A Computerized Database

描述(申请人提供)：该计划旨在恢复古典古代(公元前5世纪至公元2世纪)植物的治疗用途。有可能融入当代对天然药物的研究。由此产生的全面的计算机化数据库是关于这一主题的第一个数据库，将通过一个收费网站向科学家和学者提供。研究将基于现存的关于药物治疗和药用植物的三大古代著作或著作组，这些著作由希波克拉底(5-4美分)完成或归于希波克拉底(第5-4美分。B.C.)，Dioscorides(1美分A.D.)和Galen(第二美分。公元后)。文本将以原文(希腊文)阅读；相关数据将被摘录并翻译成英文，两个版本都将存储在一个主要数据库中，并编制索引以供检索。如果可能，除了作者及其作品的历史数据外，还将使用最多四个二级数据库来存储文本中提到的植物和疾病的标识。这些次级数据库将与初级数据库相连，以便初级数据库的用户可以随时查阅必要的信息，以便更好地理解古代文献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The program aims to recover the therapeutic uses of plants in classical antiquity (5th century B.C. to 2nd century A.D.) for possible integration into contemporary research on natural medicines. The resulting comprehensive computerized database, the first on this topic, will be made available to scientists and scholars through a fee-based site. Research will be based on the three major ancient extant works, or groups of works, on pharmaceutical therapy and medicinal plants, those by, or attributed to: Hippocrates (5th-4th cent. B.C.), Dioscorides (1st cent. A.D.), and Galen (2nd cent. A.D.). Texts will be read in the original language (Greek); relevant data will be extracted and translated into English, and both versions will be stored in a primary database and indexed for retrieval. Secondary databases, up to four, will be used to store identifications of the plants and diseases mentioned in the texts, when possible, in addition to historical data on the authors and their works. These secondary databases will be linked to the primary database so that users of the primary database can consult at any moment the necessary information for a better understanding of ancient texts.