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