Sextus Placitus of Papyra (active ca. 370 AD), a Roman

Ancient Rome

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 physician, is best known for his Libri medicinae Sexti Placiti Papyriensis ex animalibus pecoribus et bestiis vel avibus Concordantiae. Placitus wrote fanciful descriptions of medicines derived from animals (etc). For example, he recommends such remedies as consuming cooked puppy

Puppy

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 to relieve colic

Colic

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, and breaking a fever

Fever

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 by cutting a splinter from the door that a eunuch

Eunuch

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has just passed through.

Works

• Artzneybuch Sexti Platonici Philosophi von den Vöglen, wilden und zamen Thieren : wie man dieselben in der Artzney für allerhand Kranckheiten gebrauchen soll, gantz lustig, nutzlich und gut gemeinen Haußhaltern, auch allen Liebhabern der Artzney zu lesen und zu wissen. - digital edition