Important Figures in Discovering New Diseases and Remedies

Title: Book 26: Diseases and Remedies

Subject: Important figures that contributed to the discovery of new remedies and who were affected by new diseases.

Description: Book 26 describes certain diseases that were prevelant in ancient Rome, and the remedies that they used to treat these disorders. There were some important figures that made large discoveries about health and preventing disease, while other big figures were being effected by these diseases. 

Creator: Pliny the Elder

Source: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plin.+Nat.+26.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137

Publisher: The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855.

Contributor: John Bostock

Rights: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

Format: Digital Website

Language: Originally writtin in Latin but was translated in English.

Type: Ancient Greek and Roman Literature

Identifier: http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0978.phi001.perseus-eng1:26.1