Medicinal Plants of Antiquity: A Computerized Database

描述（由申请人提供）：该计划旨在恢复古典时期（公元前5世纪至公元2世纪）植物的治疗用途。可能融入当代天然药物研究。由此产生的全面计算机化数据库是该主题的第一个数据库，将通过收费网站向科学家和学者提供。研究将基于三个主要的古代现存作品，或作品组，药物治疗和药用植物，那些由，或归因于：希波克拉底（公元前5 - 4世纪），Dioscorides（公元1世纪），和盖伦（公元2世纪）。文本将以原文（希腊文）阅读;相关数据将被提取并翻译成英文，两种文本都将储存在一个主要数据库中，并编入索引供检索。二级数据库，最多四个，将用于存储在文本中提到的植物和疾病的识别，如果可能的话，除了作者及其作品的历史数据。这些二级数据库将与一级数据库连接，以便一级数据库的用户可以随时查阅必要的资料，更好地了解古代文献。

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.