46th International Congress for the History of Pharmacy (2024) (стр. 99-107)
АУТОР / AUTHOR(S): Yves Lehmann, Helene Lehmann 
DOI: 10.46793/ISHP46.099L
САЖЕТАК / ABSTRACT:
Gargilius Martialis’ (3rd century A. D.) Medicinae ex holeribus et pomis : a pharmacopoeia for domestic use in Roman Africa – All components of Gargilius Martialis’ short handbook on The Remedies extracted from Vegetables and Fruits show that the aforenamed work has been written by a retired officer who was anxious to offer his Afro-Roman countrymen – on the fringe of the scientific pharmacology – a form of medication resolutely empiric and usual which stands at the level of individual or collective experience. Since by drawing up this collection of therapeutic formulae Quintus Gargilius Martialis was adding to the sensible remedies – stemmed from the compilation of a main source (Pliny’s Natural History) and of two secondary Greek sources (Dioscorides’ Materia Medica as well as Galen’s monumental works) – a whole series of incantations, spells and all manner of treatments conveyed through popular traditions obviously in order to produce a manual of family medicine. Thus it’s certainly not a matter of chance if about 570 A. D. the wealthy senator Cassiodorus – who enjoined the monks of the monastery he had founded at Vivarium (in the South of Italy) to assist the patients in giving them appropriate remedies – left at the library of the religious institution some medical texts of the highest importance : among other books featured precisely Gargilius Martialis’ treatise.
КЉУЧНЕ РЕЧИ / KEYWORDS:
Gargilius Martialis, histoire de la pharmacie antique, pharmacopée à usage familial, phytothérapie, fruits, légumes