Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 47

ORIBASIUS (325-403) Opera, quae extant omnia, tribus tomis digesta. Apud Michaëlem Isingrinium 1557 336, 104 [126] pp., illus. 16.1 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 46

This volume of Oribasius' three-volume Opera contains his Synopseos (see No. 46), here translated by Giovanni Battista Rasario (1517-1578), and De laqueis and De machinamentis, two well-illustrated shorter works translated by Guido Guidi (see No. 263 ff.). Oribasius excerpted De laqueis, a work on knots and harnesses designed to immobilize limbs, from the writings of Heracleides of Tarentum (fl. 75 B.C.) and, from the work of Heliodorus (fl. 100 A.D.), De machinamentis, a tract on mechanical devices used by surgeons to set broken limbs and reduce dislocations.

See Related Record(s): 263

Cited references: Durling 3403

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