1. Porter, Roy, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind. A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to Present. London/New York: Norton, 1997, 1–8 and passim.
2. Scibonius Largo, Compositiones 17, ed. Sergio Sconoccha, Leipzig 1983, 20.
3. Scarborough, John, “Roman Medicine to Galen,” in: Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II. 37: 1. Ed. Wolfgang Haase and Hildegard Temporini. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1993, 3–48, quote 20.
4. Porter, 689.
5. See below Laqueur, Nettesheim, Sastry, Willich.