Pliny the Elder and Nicholas of Poland on Snake Products and Their Medical Applications
The paper aims to show how Pliny the Elder, in his Historia Naturalis, and Nicholas of Poland, in Experimenta, the medical treatise attributed to him, presented and described ways of preparing snakes for medical purposes. The paper explores the connections and relationships between these texts, pr...
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Language: | English |
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2024-03-01
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Series: | Clotho |
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Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/clotho/article/view/16561 |