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Matthaeus Platearius

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Gender Male
Parents Trota of Salerno
BooksBook of simple medicines, A Middle English Version of the Circa Instans
Book of simple medicines
A Middle English Version of the Circa Instans
Died1161
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Matthaeus Platearius Life story


Matthaeus Platearius was a physician from the medical school at Salerno, and is thought to have produced a twelfth-century Latin manuscript on medicinal herbs titled "Circa Instans", later translated into French as "Le Livre des simples medecines".

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