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Quintus Sammonicus Serenus was a Roman
savant, and an author of a didactic medical poem,
De medicina praecepta (probably incomplete).
The work (1115
hexameters) contains a number of popular remedies, borrowed from
Pliny and
Dioscorides, and various magic formulae, amongst others the famous
Abracadabra, as a cure for
fever and
ague. It concludes with a description of the famous antidote of
Mithradates VI of Pontus.
It was much used in the middle ages, but is of little value except for the ancient history of popular medicine. The syntax and metre are remarkably correct. It is uncertain whether the author was the famous
physician and
polymath, who was put to death in
AD 212 at a banquet to which he'd been invited by
Caracalla, or his son, the tutor of
the younger Gordian.
The father, who was one of the most learned men of his age, wrote upon a variety of subjects, and possessed a library of 60,000 volumes, bequeathed to his son and handed on by the latter to Gordian.
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