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SCRIBONIUS LARGUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 216 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LARGUS  , court physician to the emperor Claudius . About A.D . 47, at the request of
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Gaius
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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 old wives' remedies are also included . The
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work has no pretensions to style, and contains many colloquialisms . The greater
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part of it was transferred without 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 text of Largus . See the edition of the Compositiones by G . Helmreich (Teubner series, 1887) .

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