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LARGUS, SCRIBONIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 216 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LARGUS, SCRIBONIUS , 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 Largus. See the edition of the Compositiones by G. Helmreich (Teubner See also:series, 1887).

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