The Manuscripts of the Medical Directors of Spas of the Library of the Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid: Documentation on Roman Spas
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A survey is made on the collection of manuscripts referring to Spanish healing spas preserved in the library of the Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid. The legislation that gives rise to the manuscripts and specifies their content is reflected. Also the problems of custody and conservation that have caused that today there is only 5% of those that were written. Finally, the contents of the texts and their possibilities for use in the study of the ancient world are analyzed based on archaeological, numismatic, epigraphic, graphic and medical data.
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