Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 44.5

QUINTUS SERENUS SAMMONICUS (d. 211 or 212) Quinti Sereni Sammonici poetae & medici clarissimi, De re medica siue morborum curationibus liber tum elegans tum humanae saluti perquàm utilis & diligenter emendatus : item Gabrielis Humelbergij Rauenspurgensis, medici, in Q. Sereni Librum medicinalem commentarij Christoph Froschauer 1540 1 unnumbered page, 249 [i.e. 252], 2 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) 23 cm

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A beautifully printed edition, with the Froschauer device on the title page, of this third century medical poem, important because of the “ample and valuable” commentary by Humelberg, a Ravensberg physician. This extensive commentary constitutes a medical treatise in itself with a long section on the teeth and eyes and a chapter on mental diseases. This popular medical poem of the third century is based on Pliny and Dioscorides. This didactic poem in 1,115 hexameters is attributed to the younger Quintus Serenus, whose father was put to death by Caracalla c. 212 A.D. It consists chiefly of a formulary for the poor and is divided into 65 chapters containing recipes against various disorders and maladies and is important for the history of the Greco-Roman period.

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Cited references: NLM 16th century 4191, Durling 4191

Gift of John Martin M.D.