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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 2455 — BOOK XXIX. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.

John Bostock translation

In order to destroy the medical books and prescriptions there. The same story is told, with little variation, of Avicenna. Cnidos is also mentioned as the scene of this act of philosophical incendiarism.

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