Scribonius Largus
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Scribonius Largus
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Scribonius Largus Designatianus was the court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius. Around 47 AD, at the request of Gaius Julius Callistus, the emperor's freedman, he drew up a list of 271 prescriptions (Compositiones), most of them his own, although he acknowledged his indebtedness to his tutors, to friends, and to the writings of eminent physicians. Certain traditional remedies are also included. The work has no pretensions to style, and contains many colloquialisms, and has been cited by P
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1st century AD Roman physician to the Roman emperor Claudius and author
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribonius_Largus
date created:
2005-01-29T13:59:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T19:15:25Z
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