Medical Latin in the Roman Empire

"This book, concentrating on texts of 'high' medicine written in educated, even literary, Latin, offers a detailed linguistic profile of the medical terminology of Celsus and Scribonius Largus (first century A.D.) and Theodorus Priscianus and Cassius Felix (fifth century A.D.), as well as frequent comparisons with their respective near-contemporaries."

"The linguistic focus is on vocabulary and word-formation and the book thus addresses the large question of the possible and the preferred means of extending the vocabulary in Latin at the beginning and end of the Empire. Some syntactic issues (including word order and nominalization) are also discussed, and sections on the sociolinguistic background and stylistic features consider the question to what extent we may speak of 'medical Latin' in the strong sense, as the language of a group, and draw comparisons and contrasts between ancient and modern technical languages."--Jacket.