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Erasistratus, of Ceos, active 3rd century B.C.

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  • Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose when ever he saw her. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1776, after B. West.
  • Antiochus is reclining on a bed while his physician Erasistratus is taking his pulse; King Seleucus and Queen Stratonice are seated at his bedside. Engraving by L. de Visscher after P. Berrettini da Cortona, ca. 1680.
  • Erasistratus, a physician, realising that Antiochus's (son of Seleucus I) illness is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose whenever he saw her. Line engraving by J.C. Levasseur, 1769, after H. Collin de Vermont, 1727.
  • Ancient herbalists and scholars of medicinal lore (Galen, Pliny, Hippocrates etc.); and Venus and Adonis in the gardens of Adonis. Woodcut, 1532.
  • Ancient herbalists and scholars of medicinal lore (Galen, Pliny, Hippocrates etc.); and Venus and Adonis in the gardens of Adonis. Woodcut, 1532.

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    Erasistratus, sive de sanguinis missione / [Lucantonio Porzio].

    Porzio, Lucantonio, 1639-1723. | Date: 1683
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    Rosa Gallica ... omnibus sanitatem affectantibus utilis & necessaria quae in se continet praecepta, auctoritates, atque sententias memoratu dignas, ex Hippocratis, Galeni, Erasistrati, Asclepiadis, Diascoridis, Rasis, Haliabatis, Isaac, Avicennae, multorumque aliorum clarorum virorum libris in unum collectas: quae ad medicam artem rectamque vivendi formam plurimum conducunt. Una cum sua preciosa margarita. De medici atque egri officio / [Symphorien Champier].

    Champier, Symphorien, 1472?-approximately 1535. | Date: 1514

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