Anonymus Londinensis

The papyrus, column 5, lines 23-45. In lines 35-37, the author quotes Aristotle/Meno: "Hippocrates says that gases (''phusai'', breaths, flatus) are the causes of disease, as Aristotle has stated about him." This is followed by a more specific explanation of how these gases arise from the residues (''perissōmata'', lines 42-43) of undigested food. The account is closely related to ''On Breaths'' in the [[Hippocratic Corpus Anonymus Londinensis (or Anonymus Londiniensis) is the name given to an anonymous Ancient Greek author of approximately the 1st century AD, whose work ''On Medicine'' (, ) is partially preserved in a papyrus in the British Library (PBrLibr inv. 137 = P.Lit.Lond. 165). The paprus was found in Egypt. It ranks as the most important surviving medical papyrus and provides important information about the history of Greek medical thought. Provided by Wikipedia
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    De medicina
    by Anonymus Londiniensis
    Published 2011
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