Greek physician born in Ephesus, Asia Minor, trained in Alexandria before coming to Rome to work for emperors Trajan (98-117) and Hadrian (117-138), pioneer in the description of rickets. Son of Meander and Phoibe, he was a late-life contemporary of Galen (129-201). biology, including gynecology, of which two books survive, talking about midwifery procedures, female anatomy, conception and childbirth, diet, surgery and drugs.
Other works, many of them already lost, dealt with Medicines, Surgery, Hygiene, Ophthalmology, History of Medicines, Bandages and the Life of Hippocrates, which still exists today. His most important works, On Acute Diseases and On Chronic Diseases, are lost, but their existence is known from the Latin translations of Cælius Aurelianus. He rejected the idea of humors and also disagreed with the Platonic-Aristotelian theory of the wandering womb, and he died in Rome.
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