• Scribonius Largus Designatianus (c. 1 – c. 50) was the court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius. Around 47 AD, at the request of Gaius Julius Callistus...
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  • Largus may refer to: Scribonius Largus, Roman physician and writer Saint Largus, Christian martyr of the Roman era, associated with Cyriacus Largus (bug)...
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    Celsus, Scribonius Largus, Martialis, Statius, Juvenal) for the resinous juice of the balsam tree, and xylobalsamum (Pliny, Scribonius Largus, Celsus)...
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  • of the Scribonii to obtain the consulship was Gaius Scribonius Curio in 76 BC. The nomen Scribonius belongs to a large class of gentilicia derived from...
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    ban on simply pessaries, or a blanket ban on all abortion methods. Scribonius Largus was adamant in AD 43 (the earliest surviving reference to the oath)...
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  • He is, perhaps, the same person who is quoted by Pliny, Galen, and Scribonius Largus. A Greek fragment by Meges is preserved by Oribasius. Galen, De Meth...
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    ISBN 978-1-4443-1293-5. "The Hippocratic Oath Today". PBS. 27 March 2001. "Scribonius Largus" Soranus, Owsei Temkin (1956). Soranus' Gynecology. I.19.60: JHU Press...
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    manner similar to the way the torpedo fish stuns with electricity. Scribonius Largus, a Roman physician, recorded the use of torpedo fish for treatment...
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    neuromuscular junction. For example, agrin was first isolated from Torpedo. Scribonius Largus, a first century physician, advised the use of a live torpedo as a...
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    London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-57898-631-6. Hamilton, J. S. (1986). "Scribonius Largus on the medical profession". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 60...
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