1504 ALEXANDER OF TRALLES [ἈΛΈΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΌΣ; ALEXANDER TRALLIANUS] (525 – 605); CORDO, Simone [Simon de Gènes; Januensis; Simone Genuense; Genuensis] (1270 – 1303); DESPARS, Jacques (Jacobus Partibus) (1380 – 1458)

Practica Alexandri yatros greci cum expositione glose interlinearis Jacobi de Partibus et Januensis in margine posite.

First printing of an incomplete medieval Latin translation by Jacques Despars of the main medical work of Alexander, a Byzantine physician from Tralles in Lydia, Asia Minor (now Aydin, Turkey). Digital facsimile from …

GMN 34 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/43

1509 PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius [Pliny the Elder] (23 – 79); PSEUDO-PLINY ( – 350)

Medicinae Pliniae libri quinque finiunt foeliciter.

The Medicina Plinii was an anonymous compilation of remedies dating to the early 4th century CE ."The excerptor, saying that he speaks from experience, offers the work as a compact resource for travelers in dealing wi…

GMN 8445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10622

1512 NEMESIUS (ΝΕΜΈΣΙΟΣ), Bishop of Emesa (350 – )

Divini Gregorii Nyssae episcopi qui fuit frater Basilii Magni libri octo. I. De homine. II. De anima. III. De elementis. IIII. De viribus animae. V. De voltario etinuoltario. VI. De fato. VII. De libero arbitrio. VIII. De prouidentia.

Nemesius’ De natura hominis, a physiological and psychological study of man, was highly esteemed during the Middle Ages. Nemesius, who wrote in the 4th century CE, was one of the first to propose that mental processes…

GMN 571 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/339

1525 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); TORRESANO, Andrea (Torresani, Andrea Asolano) (1451 – 1528); OPIZO, Johannes Baptista (Giovanni Baptista Oppizoni) (1485 – 1532)

Librorum pars prima [-quinta] … 5 vols.

Greek editio princeps of Galen's complete works in Greek, edited by the Paduan professor G. B. Oppizzoni [Opizo] with the help of John Clement , Edward Wotton, William Rose (ca. 1490-1525), and Thomas Lupset, all Engi…

GMN 27 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4692

1528 PAUL OF AEGINA (ΠΑΥ͂ΛΟΣ ΑἸΓΙΝΉΤΗΣ; PAULUS AEGINETA) (625 – 690)

In principio singulorum librorum omnia indicantur, quae in eo libro continentur. [Title in Greek and Latin].

Paul of Aegiina was the most famous physician and surgeon in the Byzantine Empire during the seventh century, and probably thereafter. According to Eugene F. Rice, "Paulus Aegineta", Catalogus translationum et comment…

GMN 36 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8760

1528 VEGETIUS RENATUS, Publius Flavius (365 – )

Vegetii Renati Artis veterinariae, sive mulomedicinae libri quatuor, iam primum typis in lucem aediti.

The earliest surviving work on veterinary medicine, by a writer from Late Antiquity, presumably in the Western Roman Empire. Digital facsimile from BayerischeStaatsbibliothek at this link.

GMN 8427 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10604

1529 CAELIUS AURELIANUS (500 – ); SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); ORIBASIUS (ὈΡΕΙΒΆΣΙΟΣ), [Oreibasius] (320 – 403); SICARD, Johannes [Sichardt;Sichardus] (1499 – 1552)

Caelii Aureliani Siccensis Tardarum passionum libri V. D. Oribasii Sardi Iuliani Caesaris archiatri Euporiston lib: III. Medicinae comperi: lib: 1. Curationum lib: 1. Trochiscoru confect: lib: 1.

From a clinical point of view, the two works of Caelius Aurelianus, which were translated into Latin from Greek originals by Soranus of Ephesus that were later lost, represent the high-point of Graeco-Roman medical ac…

GMN 1959.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6052

1532 ABULCASIS (ABU AL-QASIM KHALAF IBN AL-ABBAS AL-ZAHRAWI; أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي‎), [Albucasis] (936 – 1013); PRISCIANUS, Theodorus [Θεόδωρος ὁ Πρισκιανός] ( – 375)

Octavii Horatiani reum medicarum Lib. Quatuor. I. Logicus, De curationibus omnium ferme morborum corporis humani, ad Euporistum. II. De acutis & chronicis passionibus, ad eundem. III. Gynecia, De mulierum accidentibus, & curis eorundem, ad Victoriam. IIII. De physica scientia, experimentorum liber, ad Eusebium filium. Albucasis. chirurgicorum omium primarii, lib. tres. I. De cauterio cum igne, & medicins acutis per singula corporis humani membra. Cum instrumentorum delimatione. II. De sectione & perforatione, phlebotomia, & ventosis. De vulternibus, & extractione sagittaru, & certeris similibus. Cum formis instrumentorum. III. De restuartione & curatione, dislocationis membrorum. Cum typis item instrumentorum.

In this, the first printed edition of Rerum medicarum libri quatuor by the late antique Byzantine physician Theodorus Priscianus, his work was misattributed to Octavianus Horatianus. Digital facsimile from Google Book…

GMN 9011 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11190

1533 –1534 AETIUS OF AMIDA [ἈΈΤΙΟΣ ἈΜΙΔΗΝΌΣ; AETIUS AMIDENUS; AËTIUS] (450 – 550); CORNARIUS, Janus (1500 – 1558); MONTANUS, Johannes Baptista [Giovanni Battista Monte] (1498 – 1551)

Aetii Amideni quem alii Antiochenum vocant medici clarissimi libri XVI. tomos divisi : quorum primus & ultimus Ioan. Baptista Montano Veronensi medico, secundus Iano Cornario Zuiccauiensi, & ipso medicinae professore, interpretibus latinitate donati sunt. In quo opere cuncta quae ad curandi artem pertinent congesta sunt, ex omnibus qui usq[ue] ad eius tempora scripserant, diligentissime excerpta. Additus est index in omneis tomos copiosissimus. 3 vols.

J. B. Montanus and Janus Cornarius prepared the first edition of Aetius's collected works in Latin translation. That edition was the first to include Aetius's writings on obstetrics, which epitomized all previous know…

GMN 6974 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9140

1534 AETIUS OF AMIDA [ἈΈΤΙΟΣ ἈΜΙΔΗΝΌΣ; AETIUS AMIDENUS; AËTIUS] (450 – 550)

Bιβλίων ὶαтριкω̂ν тομος ά. Librorum medicinalium tomus primus, primi scilicet libri octo nunc primum in lucem editi.

First printed edition in the original Greek of the first half of the Tetrabiblion, issued in Venice by the heirs of Aldus Manutius. In the Tetrabiblion Aetius collected together works of other men which might have bee…

GMN 33 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8757

1536 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); MARCELLUS EMPIRICUS, (Marcellus Burdigalensis) (375 – 425); CORNARIUS, Janus (1500 – 1558)

De medicamentis empiricis physicis ac rationalibus liber.... Edited by Janus Cornarius. Item Claudii Galeni libri novem nunc primum Latini facti.... Jani Cornarii.

The Gallo-Roman physician Marcellus was born in Bordeaux. He may have served as magister officiorum under Theodosius I, or may have been royal physician. Sarton (Introduction to the history of science I, 391) consider…

GMN 10961 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13157

1537 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); THEOPHILUS PROTOSPATHARIUS, (Θεόφιλος Πρωτοσπαθάριος) (650 – ); GRASSI, Giunio Paolo (Iunius Paulus Crassus) ( – 1575)

De corporis humani fabrica libri quinque a Junio Paulo Crasso Patavino in latinam orationem conversi. [Cum] Hippocratis praeterea Coi de purgatoriis medicamentis libellus perutilis, ac desideratus ab eodem Jun. Paulo Cras. Latinitate donatus.

A Byzantine anatomical and physiological treatise almost entirely abridged from Galen's "De usu partium corporis humani," from which Theophilus now and then differed, and which he sometimes appears to have misundersto…

GMN 7145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9312

1556 ORIBASIUS (ὈΡΕΙΒΆΣΙΟΣ), [Oreibasius] (320 – 403)

Ta ton Oribasios iatrikon snyagogon ek tou galenou anatomika. Collectaneorum artis medicae liber, quo totius corporis humani sectio explicatur, ex Galeni commentariis.

Editio principes (first printed edition in Greek) of the anatomical portions (Books 24 and 25) of Oribasius's Synagoge, or Encyclopaedia of Medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 12775 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15021

1566 GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565); WOLFF, Caspar [WOLF] (1525 – 1601); MUSCIO [MUSTIO; MOSCHION] (500 – )

Moschionos Peri gynaikeion pathon, id est…De morbis muliebribus liber unus; cum CONARDI GESNERI… scholiis & emendationibus nun primum editus opera ac studio CASPARI WOLPHII.

The earliest text specifically for midwives, based on the teachings of Soranus, the greatest obstetrical writer of antiquity. Muscio was a pupil of Soranus. His book, the earliest copy of which is a manuscript dating …

GMN 6136 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8618

1570 ALEXANDER OF TRALLES [ἈΛΈΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΌΣ; ALEXANDER TRALLIANUS] (525 – 605); MERCURIALE, Girolamo (1530 – 1606)

Hieronymi Mercurialis Variarum lectionum libri quatuor. In quibus complurium, maximeq́ue medicinae scriptorum infinita paenè loca vel corrupta restituuntur, vel obscura declarantur. Alexandri Tralliani De lumbricis epistola, ejusdem Mercurialis opera, & diligentia Graecè, & Latinè nunc primùm edita ...

Includes the first printed edition of the Greek text and Latin translation by Mercuriale of Alexander's De vermis epistola. Alexander's original description of worms and vermifuges make him the first parasitologist. D…

GMN 35 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8758

1834 DIETZ, Friedrich Reinhold (1805 – 1836)

Apollonii, Citiensis, Stephani, Palladii, Theophili, Meletii, Damascii, Ioannis, aliorum: Scholia in Hippocratem et Galenum e codicibus Mss. Vindobonens. Monacens. Florentin. Mediolanens. Escorialens, etc. Primum Graece edidit Fridericus Reinholdus Dietz.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 8420 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10597

1842 ANTYLLUS (ΑΝΤΥΛΛΟΣ) (150 – ); WOLZ, Friedrich Carl Franz

Antylli veteris chirurgi quae apud Oribasium libro xliv, xlv et L leguntur fragmenta. Dissertatio inauguralis chirurgico-historica....By Friedrich C. F. Wolz.

Antyllus, a Greek surgeon who lived in Rome during the second century CE. is particularly remembered for his work on the surgery of aneurysm. He was first to recognize two forms of aneurysm–one caused by dilatation an…

GMN 30 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4790

1844 –1847 PAUL OF AEGINA (ΠΑΥ͂ΛΟΣ ΑἸΓΙΝΉΤΗΣ; PAULUS AEGINETA) (625 – 690); ADAMS, Francis (1796 – 1861)

The seven books of Paulus Aegineta: Translated from the Greek, with a commentary embracing a complete view of the knowledge possessed by the Greeks, Romans, and Arabians on all subjects connected with medicine and surgery by Francis Adams. 3 vols.

Book VI is entirely devoted to operative surgery. Adams himself says that it “contains the most complete system of operative surgery which has come down to us from ancient times”. Book IV contains much information on …

GMN 8306 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10482

1851 –1876 DAREMBERG, Charles Victor (1817 – 1872); ORIBASIUS (ὈΡΕΙΒΆΣΙΟΣ), [Oreibasius] (320 – 403); BUSSEMAKER, Ulco Cats (1810 – 1865); MOLINIER, Auguste (1851 – 1904)

Oeuvres d’Oribase, texte grec, en grande partie inédit…traduit pour la première fois en français; par les Drs. Bussemaker et Daremberg. 6 vols.

Oribasius was a compiler of existing knowledge rather than an original writer. His output was immense; he compiled the Synagoge, an encyclopedic digest of medicine, hygiene, therapeutics, and surgery from Hippocrates …

GMN 31 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8755

1875 ROSE, Valentin (1829 – 1916); MARTIALIS, Quintus Gargilius (250 – )

Plinii Secundi quae fertur una cum Gargilli Martialis medicina: Nunc primum edita a Valentino Rose.

Fragments of Martialis's work (probably called De hortis), which treated of the cultivation of trees and vegetables, and also of their medicinal properties, survived, chiefly in the body of and as an appendix to the M…

GMN 8443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10620

1877 ANTHIMUS, (Ἄνθιμος) (500 – 550); ROSE, Valentin (1829 – 1916)

De observatione ciborum epistula ad Theudericum Regem Francorum. Iterum edidit Valentinus Rose.

De observatione ciborum ("On the Observance of Foods") by Anthimus, a Byzantine physician at the court of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric, concerns foods and their preparations as well as the use of foods for selected ai…

GMN 7118 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9285

1878 –1879 ALEXANDER OF TRALLES [ἈΛΈΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΌΣ; ALEXANDER TRALLIANUS] (525 – 605); PUSCHMANN, Theodor (1844 – 1899)

Alexander von Tralles. Original-Text und Übersetzung nebst einer einleitenden Abhandlung. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medicin. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 8966 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11145

1879 ROSE, Valentin (1829 – 1916); CASSIUS FELIX, [Cassius Felix of Cirta] ( – 475)

Cassius Felicis De medicina ex Graecis logicae sectae auctoribus liber translatus sub Artabure et Calepio consulibus (anno 447) nunc primu editus a Valentino Rose.

Editio princeps. Cassius Felix was a Roman African medical writer, probably native of Constantina (now Algeria). His De medicina is a simple handbook for practical use, drawing on Greek medical sources. Digital facsim…

GMN 9012 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11191

1885 CORLIEU, Auguste (1825 – 1907)

Les médecins grecs depuis la mort de Galien jusqu'a la chute de l'empire d'orient (210-1453).

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

GMN 8416 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10593

1889 MARCELLUS EMPIRICUS, (Marcellus Burdigalensis) (375 – 425); HELMREICH, Georg (1849 – 1921)

Marcelli De medicamentis liber. Edited Georgius Helmreich.

Marcellus's compendium of pharmacological preparations drawing on the work of multiple medical and scientific writers as well as folk remedies and magic. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 8330 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10506

1893 ANONYMUS LONDINENSIS (75 – ); DIELS, Hermann Alexander (1848 – 1922)

Anonymi Londinensis ex Aristotelis iatricis Menoniis et aliis medicis eclogae editit Hermannus Diels.

Written about 100 CE, On Medicine (Ιατρικα) is partially preserved in a papyrus in the British Library (PBrLibr inv. 137 = P.Lit.Lond. 165). It is the most important surviving ancient Greek medical papyrus, a key sour…

GMN 25 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4675

1901 ODER, Eugen (1862 – 1926)

Claudii Hermeri. Mulomedicina Chironis editit Eugenius Oder.

Edition of the Mulomedicina in Codex Monacensis Latinus 243 saec. xv, a translation in vulgar Latin (by Claudis Hermeros?) of a Greek treatise. In the subscriptions of books 1 and 2, 9, 10, "Chiron Centaurus", "Chiron…

GMN 10139 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12328

1903 VEGETIUS RENATUS, Publius Flavius (365 – ); MARTIALIS, Quintus Gargilius (250 – ); LOMMATZSCH, Ernst Otto Franz (1871 – 1949)

P. Vegeti Renati digestorum artis mulomedicinae libri edidit Ernestus Lommatzsch. Accedit Gargili Martialis de curis boum fragmentum.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Includes an edition of the Late Antique Latin writer Quintus Gargilius Martialis's fragmentary treatise on the tending of cattle.

GMN 12176 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14386

1908 WELLMANN, Max (1863 – 1933); PHILUMENOS, [Philumenus; Φιλούμενος] ( – 200)

Philumeni de venenatis animalibus eorumque remediis capita XXXVIII ed. M. Wellmann. Corpus medicorum graecorum X 1, 1.

This work on venoms and their antidotes is the only surviving work of the Byzantine physician Philomenos. Within this context Philomenos also discusses the bites of rabid dogs. Digital facsimile from Corpus medicorum …

GMN 9018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11197

1916 SERENUS SAMMONICUS, Quintus (Quintus Serenus) ( – 212); VOLLMER, Friedrich Karl (1867 – 1923)

Quinti Sereni Liber medicinalis. Edited by Friedrich Vollmer.

GMN 9009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11188

1921 –1924 PAUL OF AEGINA (ΠΑΥ͂ΛΟΣ ΑἸΓΙΝΉΤΗΣ; PAULUS AEGINETA) (625 – 690); HEIBERG, Johan Ludvig (1854 – 1928)

Paulus Aegeneta [Opera] ed. J.L. Heiberg. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum IX. 2 vols.

Standard Greek text.

GMN 37 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8761

1926 –1933 ORIBASIUS (ὈΡΕΙΒΆΣΙΟΣ), [Oreibasius] (320 – 403); RAEDER, Johannes (1869 – 1959)

Collectionum medicarum reliquae, libri 1-VIII, libri IX-XVI, libri XXIV-XXV, XLIII-XLVIII, libri XLIX-L, libri incerti ecologae medicamentorum. Synopsis ad Eustathium, Libri ad Eunapium. Edited by Johannes Raeder. 5 vols.

Contains selections from the writings of physicians, the originals of some of whose works no longer exist, and who would have been forgotten, but for the compilations of Oribasius. Writers included are Agathinus, Anty…

GMN 32 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8756

1927 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)

The herbal in antiquity and its transmission to later ages.

GMN 11383 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13582

1933 –1937 ALEXANDER OF TRALLES [ἈΛΈΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΌΣ; ALEXANDER TRALLIANUS] (525 – 605); BRUNET, Félix Louis Emile (1872 – 1958)

Médecine et thérapeutique byzantines: Oeuvres médicales d’Alexander de Tralles, le dernier auteur classique des grands médecins grecs de l’antiquité. Ed. F. Brunet. 4 vols.

GMN 35.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8759

1947 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); ANONYMUS LONDINENSIS (75 – )

The medical writings of Anonymus Londinensis.

The text edited by Diels, with an English translation, introduction and notes by Jones, together with essays on the nature of Greek thought and medicine.

GMN 9080 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11259

1950 CAELIUS AURELIANUS (500 – ); DRABKIN, Israel Edward (1905 – 1965)

On acute diseases. On chronic diseases. Edited and translated by I.E. Drabkin.

The standard Latin texts and English translations. Regretably the medieval manuscripts on which the 16th century editions of Caelius Aurelianus were based did not survive. Nor have any other medieval codices of these …

GMN 12199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14409

1958 RUSSELL, J. C.

Late ancient and medieval population.

Digital facsimile from JSTOR at this link.

GMN 9110 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11289

1981 MARGANNE, Marie-Hélène

Inventaire analytique des papyrus grecs de médecine.

GMN 8282 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10458

1981 –1986 ARISTIDES, Aelius (Αἴλιος Ἀριστείδης, Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus) (117 – 181); BEHR, Charles Allison

The complete works, translated into English by Charles Allison Behr. 2 vols.

"The six books of Sacred Tales “ are in a class apart. A record of revelations made to Aristides in dreams by the healing god Asclepius…they are of major importance, both as evidence for the practices associated with …

GMN 8324 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10500

1981 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); AGNELLUS OF RAVENNA (500 – )

Lectures on Galen's De sectis. (Arethusa Monographs, VIII). Department of Classics, State University of New York at Buffalo.

English translation of this commentary on Galen's De sectis (On sects) given by the iatrosophist and commentator on medical texts, Agnellus, circa 600 CE.

GMN 8437 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10614

1982 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); JOHN OF ALEXANDRIA, (Iohannis Alexandrinus) (600 – 642); PRITCHET, C. D.

Iohannis Alexandrini Commentaria in librum De sectis Galeni. Edited by C. D. Pritchet.

Edited from the Latin translation by Burgundio of the Greek text first published in the 1490 edition of Galen's works.

GMN 8436 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10613

1985 –1995 WESTERINK, Leendert Gerrit (1913 – 1990); STEPHANUS OF ATHENS (550 – 630)

Stephanus of Athens: Commentary on Hippocrates' aphorisms. Edited and translated by Leendert G. Westerink. Vol. 1: Section 1-2; Vol. 2: Sections 3-4; Vol. 3: Sections 5-6.

Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 11, 1, 3, 1-3.

GMN 8325 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10501

1988 BROWN, Peter Robert Lamont (1935 – )

The body and society: Men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity.

"A groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lif…

GMN 8837 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11015

1991 TEMKIN, Oswei (1902 – 2002)

Hippocrates in a world of pagans and Christians.

GMN 8125 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10301

1994 MARGANNE, Marie-Hélène

L'ophtalmologie dans l'Egypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraires grecs.

GMN 8281 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10457

1996 YEGÜL, Fikret K. (1941 – )

Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.

Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…

GMN 9757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11945

1997 ORIBASIUS (ὈΡΕΙΒΆΣΙΟΣ), [Oreibasius] (320 – 403); GRANT, Mark David (1960 – )

Dieting for an emperor: A translation of books 1 and 4 of Oribasius' Medical Compilations with an introduction and commentary by Mark Grant.

GMN 9369 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11552

1998 MARGANNE, Marie-Hélène

La chirurgie dans l'Égypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraire grecs.

GMN 8283 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10459

1998 SEXTUS PLACITUS, of Papyra ( – 380); SEGOLINI, Maria Paola

Libri medicinae Sexti Placiti Papyriensis ex animalibus pecoribus et bestiis vel avibus Concordantiae. Edited by Maria Paola Segolini.

Placitus wrote fanciful descriptions of medicines derived from animals, and other sources. For example, he recommended such remedies as consuming cooked puppy to relieve colic, and breaking a fever by cutting a splint…

GMN 8880 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11058

1999 JONES, Peter Murray; UNTERKIRCHER, Franz

Medicina antiqua. Codex Vindobonensis 93. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Introduction by Peter Murray Jones, commentary by Franz Unterkircher. Manuscripts in Miniature, No. 4.

Color reproduction, reduced in size by one-third, of "a compendium of popular Late Antique texts brought together in the 6th century. It contains writings on herbs and materia medica by authors heavily reliant on the …

GMN 9810 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11998