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A pompeian herbal ancient and modern medicinal plants and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle learn more enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. A pompeian herbal ancient and modern medicinal plants and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle learn more enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. This little book basically provides a short history of the uses of medicinal plants in ancient greece and rome which is very brief and not very comprehensive the second part discusses the uses of some of the more common plants that grow in the area around pompeii that were used in ancient times and are still being used today. A pompeian herbal ancient and modern medicinal plants wilhelmina f jashemski when workmen excavating the ruins of pompeii eagerly gathered the native medicinal plants growing there wilhelmina jashemski discovered that this was another example of the continuity of life in . This exhibit features plant portraits created by victoria i and lillian nicholson meyer for jashemskis book a pompeian herbal the illustrations portray medicinal plants identified in the excavations and those that still grow in the area today the text adapted from the book documents the varied ways both the ancient romans and the modern