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The Medicina Plinii - Latin Text, Translation, and Commentary (Paperback)
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The Medicina Plinii - Latin Text, Translation, and Commentary (Paperback)
Series: Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World
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This book presents the first ever English translation of the
Medicina Plinii, one of the most influential books of applied
medicine and self-medication in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
The work, which predates AD 400, was created as a quick reference
work for travellers, and became and remained highly influential, as
witnessed by frequent references to it and by various later
adaptations. Only the rise of scientific medicine and pharmacology
led to its demise and confinement in a small corner of specialist
studies. It presents more than 1,150 healing methods and recipes
mainly adapted from the encyclopedic Natural History of Pliny the
Elder, arranged from the patient's head to foot in order that
readers could quickly find treatments for their diseases. The
Medicina Plinii is of dual interest to present-day scholarship: The
book is a monument for the practical application of classical
knowledge which has recently found lively interest in the history
of science and medicine. At the same time the Medicina Plinii
provides a fascinating insight into the realities of the world of
Late Antiquity, and into the anxieties of the people living in the
vast Roman empire. This book will be of particular interest to
scholars and advanced students in the History of Science and
Medicine, along with a wider audience interested in medicine, and
in life in the Roman world.
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