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Medicine in verse: Quintus Serenus Sammonicus’ Liber medicinalis

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  • Adele Migliozzi
Adele Migliozzi
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Published December 27, 2021
Keywords
  • Liber,
  • medicinalis,
  • Sammonicus,
  • medicine,
  • abracadabra
How to Cite
Migliozzi, A. (2021). Medicine in verse: Quintus Serenus Sammonicus’ Liber medicinalis. Una Κοινῇ - Magazine of Studies on the Classic and Its Reception in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, (2), 171-193. Retrieved from https://unakoine.it/index.php/unaK/article/view/76

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Abstract

The article offers an analysis of the Liber Medicinalis by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, a singular medical text in hexameters, which fits well into the growing interest in the ars medica, developed from the Imperial Age. The ancient prescription pad consists of 64 chapters and collects the remedies of the Roman pharmacopoeia proposed for the various organs in the order a capite ad calcem, according to the nosological classification of antidotaries attested in the Latin world.

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