This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius' China Root Epistle. Ostensibly his appraisal of a fashionable herbal remedy, the China Root Epistle concentrates on Vesalius' skeptical appraisal of traditional Galenic anatom…
"In this work on the discovery and therapeutic use of the china root in the treatment of syphilis, Vesalius described the first attempt to formulate methods of identification of an exotic drug. He also offered physicians an opportunity to determine whether or not a drug coming i…
Epodes and Odes
by Horace, Horace, Garrison, Daniel H.
fromOklahoma series in classical culture
Epodes and odes
by Horace, Horace, Garrison, Daniel H.
fromOklahoma series in classical culture