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Maurus of Salerno, twelfth-century "optimus physicus" with his commentary on the prognostics of Hippocrates, now first transcribed from manuscript and translated into English by Morris Harold Saffron. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N.S. Vol. 62, pt. 1).

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1972.

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Entry Number#8354
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Publication place: Philadelphia