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Marcellus Empiricus

A Gallic-Roman writer born at Bordeaux in the fourth century. He was magister officiorum under Theodosius (379-395.) He wrote a work called De medicamentis conspiricis physicis ac rationalibus, a collection of medical recipes, for the most part absurd and worthless, and having more in common with popular superstition than with medical science.