Medical Latin in the Roman Empire - Langslow, D. R. (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Manchester, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford)

What are the possible and preferred means of extending the vocabulary in Latin at the beginning and end of the Roman Empire? This book addresses this question with reference to the language of medicine and so offers the first systematic account of a part of this large, rich, and largely unworked field.