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SCRIBONIUS

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LARGUS  ,
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court physician to the
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emperor
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Claudius . About A.D . 47, at the
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request of
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Gaius
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Julius Callistus, the emperor's freedman, he
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drew up a
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list of 271 prescriptions (Compositiones), most of them his own, although he acknowledged his indebtedness to his tutors, to
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friends and to the writings of eminent physicians . Certain old wives' remedies are also included . The
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work has no pretensions to
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style, and contains many colloquialisms . The greater
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part of it was transferred without
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acknowledgment to the work of
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Marcellus Empiricus (c . 410), De Medicamentis Empiricis, Physicis, et Rationabilibus, which is of
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great value for the correction of the
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text of
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Largus . See the edition of the Compositiones by G . Helmreich (Teubner
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series, 1887) .

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