CORRECTIONS

or emendations of the Drug-sellers, or
Apothecaries, and of the Arabic Physicians
Mesue, Serapion, Rhazes, Al-Farabi, and
other more recent Physicians, divided into four books
and volumes by Lord
Symphorien Champier Latin: Symphorianus Campegius (1471–1539), a French humanist physician and knight, knight of the golden spur, and
Chief Physician to the Duke of Lorraine: in which whatever
errors were committed among the Arabs have been
collected with the greatest diligence.

✱ The first book concerns simple medicines Medicines made of a single natural ingredient, in which the errors
of the Perfumers and Drug-sellers, or Spice-merchants, and recent
Physicians are taught, with the addition of their refutations.

✱ The second book contains the Corrections to the Antidota-
ry A book of medicinal recipes or Grabadin From the Arabic 'qrabadhin', meaning a pharmacopoeia of Johannes Mesue, Nicolaus, Serapion, and other
more recent Physicians.

✱ The third book concerns the method of healing bodies through
laxative medicines.

✱ The fourth book embraces the cures and remedies for the principal
ailments of the human body. ¶ To which is added the Workshop of the Apo-
thecaries and more recent Physicians.

¶ Likewise on Phlebotomy Phlebotomia: the practice of bloodletting for medical purposes or the letting of blood, and especially in
Pleurisy Inflammation of the lungs, according to the opinions of the Greeks, whose sayings the
Arabs did not understand in many respects.

¶ Likewise on the wines for those suffering from fever, from the traditions of the Greeks, Ara-
bians, Carthaginians, and the confirmations of the Holy Scriptures.

1534
1532
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