Portrait of Symphorien Champier. (View Larger)French physician and writer Symphorien Champier published in Lyon De medicine claris scriptoribus in quinque partibus tractatus, as part of his Libelli duo. Champier's biographical study of famous medical writers included a brief listing of their writings which is considered the first published medical bibliography, after Galen's bibliography of his own writings, De libris propriis liber, which was written in the second century CE, but not printed until 1525. Champier's work has also been called the first history of medicine written after De medicina by the first century CE Roman writer Aulus Cornelius Celsus.
Breslauer & Folter, Bibliography: Its History and Development (1984) no. 10.
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