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Geneeskunde
Gaius Plinius Secundus (23-79) stelde een unieke encyclopedie samen. Hij biedt een overzicht van de antieke kennis, gebaseerd op honderden Griekse en Romeinse bronnen.
In 37 boeken beschrijft hij zo ongeveer alles: van geografie en kosmologie tot flora en fauna. En van geneeskunde en delfstoffen tot schilderkunst en kostbaar gesteente.
In deze eerste bloemlezing uit zijn schatkamer van kennis: geneeskunde. Welke medicijnen moet je nemen? Hoe kun je ze zelf maken? Wat is giftig en wat niet?
Vertaling van een keuze uit Naturalis historia. Eerder verschenen in De wereld.
In 37 boeken beschrijft hij zo ongeveer alles: van geografie en kosmologie tot flora en fauna. En van geneeskunde en delfstoffen tot schilderkunst en kostbaar gesteente.
In deze eerste bloemlezing uit zijn schatkamer van kennis: geneeskunde. Welke medicijnen moet je nemen? Hoe kun je ze zelf maken? Wat is giftig en wat niet?
Vertaling van een keuze uit Naturalis historia. Eerder verschenen in De wereld.
112 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 77
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Pliny the Elder
1,276 books118 followersGaius Plinius Secundus (23 AD – August 25, 79 AD), better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all such works written subsequently. Pliny the Younger, his nephew, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus:
"For my part I deem those blessed to whom, by favour of the gods, it has been granted either to do what is worth writing of, or to write what is worth reading; above measure blessed those on whom both gifts have been conferred. In the latter number will be my uncle, by virtue of his own and of your compositions."
Pliny the Younger is referring to the fact that Tacitus relied on his uncle's now missing work on the History of the German Wars. Pliny the Elder died on August 25, 79 AD, while attempting the rescue by ship of a friend and his family from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that had just destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The prevailing wind would not allow his ship to leave the shore. His companions attributed his collapse and death to toxic fumes; but they were unaffected by the fumes, suggesting natural causes.
"For my part I deem those blessed to whom, by favour of the gods, it has been granted either to do what is worth writing of, or to write what is worth reading; above measure blessed those on whom both gifts have been conferred. In the latter number will be my uncle, by virtue of his own and of your compositions."
Pliny the Younger is referring to the fact that Tacitus relied on his uncle's now missing work on the History of the German Wars. Pliny the Elder died on August 25, 79 AD, while attempting the rescue by ship of a friend and his family from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that had just destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The prevailing wind would not allow his ship to leave the shore. His companions attributed his collapse and death to toxic fumes; but they were unaffected by the fumes, suggesting natural causes.
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August 31, 2020
Als geneeskundestudent is dit heel leuk om te lezen. Ik ben altijd wel geïnteresseerd geweest in de geschiedenis van de geneeskunde. Nu is het relatief makkelijk om met een oplossing voor een probleem te komen, door onderzoek zelfs tot op DNA niveau. Dit ging vroeger natuurlijk niet en het is interessant om te zien hoe ze vroeger problemen oplosten.
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