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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

MARCELLUS EMPIRICUS, (Marcellus Burdigalensis) (375 – 425)

375 – 425

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1536 CE

#10961

De medicamentis empiricis physicis ac rationalibus liber.... Edited by Janus Cornarius. Item Claudii Galeni libri novem nunc primum Latini facti.... Jani Cornarii.

GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216) MARCELLUS EMPIRICUS, (Marcellus Burdigalensis) (375 – 425)
CORNARIUS, Janus (1500 – 1558)
CORNARIUS, Janus (1500 – 1558)

The Gallo-Roman physician Marcellus was born in Bordeaux. He may have served as magister officiorum under Theodosius I, or may have been royal physician. Sarton (Introduction to the history of science I, 391) consider…

1889 CE

#8330

Marcelli De medicamentis liber. Edited Georgius Helmreich.

MARCELLUS EMPIRICUS, (Marcellus Burdigalensis) (375 – 425) HELMREICH, Georg (1849 – 1921)

Marcellus's compendium of pharmacological preparations drawing on the work of multiple medical and scientific writers as well as folk remedies and magic. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.