{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0530.tlg012.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg012.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0530.tlg012.local001","title":"Introductio seu medicus","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Pseudo-Galen","authorityName":"Pseudo-GALENUS Med.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0530-pseudo-galenus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0530-pseudo-galenus/","editors":["Karl Gottlob Kühn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Cnobloch","place":"Lipsiae","date":"1827","volume":"14","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies, funded by the Andrew W. 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