Scribonius largus biography of albert

1st century AD Roman physician to the Roman emperor Claudius and author

Scribonius Largus Designatianus (c.&#;1 &#; c.&#;50) was the court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius.

Around 47 AD, at the request of Gaius Julius Callistus, the emperor's freedman, he drew up a list of prescriptions (Compositiones), most of them his own, although he acknowledged his indebtedness to his tutors, to friends, and to the writings of eminent physicians.^[1] Certain traditional remedies are also included.

The work has no pretensions to style, and contains many colloquialisms,^[2] and has been cited by Peter Suber as a forerunner of Open Access.^[3] The greater part of it was transferred without acknowledgment to the work of Marcellus Empiricus