Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 86

MESUË THE YOUNGER (fl. ca. 1200?) De re medica libri tres. Jacobo Sylvio medico interprete. [n. publ.] 1553 248 [4] ll. 15.8 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 85

Another of the more than forty works attributed to Mesuë the Younger, this one deals with the principles of medicine and the use of drugs, laxatives, and antidotes. It was an early translation of Jacques Dubois (see No. 178 ff.).

See Related Record(s): 178

Cited references: Durling 3145; Osler 3401 (1561 ed.); Waller 6520 (1542 ed.); Wellcome 4279 (1548 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.