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CELSUS, AURELIUS CORNELIUS. De re medica libri octo [with SCRIBONIUS LARGUS, De compositione medicamentorum]. 1529
- Notes: Ninth edition of the treatise on Greco-Roman medicine by Celsus, which was first printed in 1478; and first edition of the pharmacological compilation by Scribonius Largus, which contains the earliest accounts of the preparation of opium and the application of electrotherapy (using the shock of a torpedo fish to cure headache). Both works were originally composed in the 1st century A.D. Adams C1243; Choulant, Handbuch, pages 169 Durling 910-11; Garrison-Morton 1785 and 1984.1.
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