Scribonius Largus
Scribonius Largus (c. 1-c. 50) was the Roman emperor Claudius court physician. He was the compiler of 271 prescriptions at the request of Gaius Julius Callistus,[1] most of them was transferred to the Marcellus Empiricus work De Medicamentis Empiricis, Physicis, et Rationabilibus.[2]
References
- ↑ Simon Hornblower. The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (11 September 2014)OUP Oxford. p. 352–. ISBN 978-0-19-101676-9.
- ↑ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Largus, Scribonius 16 (1911)Cambridge University Press. p. 216.
