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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Main Author: Adriana Grzelak-Krzymianowska
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2024-03-01
Series:Clotho
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/clotho/article/view/16561