medical opinions of Aretaeus have been discussed by such scholars as Johann Albert Fabricius, Albrecht von Haller, and Kurt Sprengel. Aretaeus has been treated...
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Apostles, 3.21; of souls, Proclus, Institutio Theologica, 199. of the body back into its old form "τῆς φύσιος ἐς τὸ ἀρχαῖον" Aretaeus of Cappadocia CD 1.5; recovery...
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disproved. One description of the theory of a "wandering womb" comes from Aretaeus, a physician from Cappadocia, who was a contemporary of Galen in the 2nd century...
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Hepatology (section Scope of specialty)
principal organ of the body. He also identified its relationship with the gallbladder and spleen. Around 100 CE Aretaeus of Cappadocia wrote on jaundice...
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Diabetes (redirect from Symptoms of diabetes)
reference to diabetes is that of Aretaeus of Cappadocia (2nd or early 3rd century CE). He described the symptoms and the course of the disease, which he attributed...
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Cappadocian Greeks (redirect from Greeks of Cappadocia)
Apollonius of Tyana (1st century ad) who was a Greek Neo-Pythagorean philosopher who became well known in the Roman Empire and Aretaeus of Cappadocia (81–138...
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of the term's origins in pre-Hippocratic humoral theories. A man known as Aretaeus of Cappadocia has the first records of analyzing the symptoms of depression...
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before encountering the milder soaps used by the Gauls around 58 BC. Aretaeus of Cappadocia, writing in the 2nd century AD, observes among "Celts, which are...
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3rd century BC), Demetrius of Apamea (fl. 100 BC), or Aretaeus of Cappadocia (fl. early 2nd century AD). In-depth probes of Greek etymology agree that...
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Greek physician Aretaeus of Cappadocia (fl. in the first century CE) used that word, with the intended meaning "excessive discharge of urine", as the name...
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Coeliac disease (redirect from Genetics of coeliac disease)
century in a translation of what is generally regarded as an Ancient Greek description of the disease by Aretaeus of Cappadocia. Humans first started to...
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Melancholia (redirect from Cult of melancholia)
delusions" to the set of symptoms listed by Hippocrates. Galen also believed that melancholia caused cancer. Aretaeus of Cappadocia, in turn, believed that...
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Female hysteria (category Stereotypes of women)
"blocking passages, obstructing breathing, and causing disease". Aretaeus of Cappadocia described the uterus as "an animal within an animal" (less emotively...
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despondencies, if they last a long time" as being symptomatic of the ailment. Aretaeus of Cappadocia later noted that sufferers were "dull or stern; dejected...
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Mental illness in ancient Rome (category History of mental disorders)
Aretaeus of Cappadocia, a Greek physician who lived in the Roman province of Cappadocia, describes melancholic patients who experienced episodes of depression...
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physician, one of the earliest anatomists Dioscorides, physician, pharmacologist, botanist, the father of pharmacognosy Aretaeus of Cappadocia, physician...
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Gloom (redirect from Psychological aspects of darkness)
ancient Greek physician, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, who said, "Lethargics are to be laid in the light and exposed to the rays of the sun, for the disease...
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Gomer with the land of Germania. According to 2nd-century author, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, the Celts were thought to be an offshoot of the Gauls. His progeny...
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a precursor of modern pharmacopoeias that was in use for almost 1600 years 2nd century AD Aretaeus of Cappadocia 98 – 138 AD – Soranus of Ephesus 129...
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to Pliny, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, and Theodorus. Gaucher recommended treatment with cobra venom. Boinet, in 1913, tried increasing doses of bee stings...
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Headache (redirect from Causes of headaches)
published by Aretaeus of Cappadocia, a medical scholar of Greco-Roman antiquity. He made a distinction between three different types of headache: i) cephalalgia...
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Migraine (redirect from Causes of migraines)
second-century description by Aretaeus of Cappadocia divided headaches into three types: cephalalgia, cephalea, and heterocrania. Galen of Pergamon used the term...
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Surgical airway management (redirect from Front of neck airway)
a surgical procedure, though he never attempted to perform one. Aretaeus of Cappadocia thought the procedure dangerous even as a remedy for choking, since...
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Karl Gottlob Kühn (category Academic staff of Leipzig University)
1813/14). Known as an editor of works by ancient physicians, he published editions of Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Hippocrates and Galen, of whom he issued the acclaimed...
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150–200 – Aretaeus of Cappadocia 155–220 Tertullian 205–270 Plotinus wrote Enneads a systematic account of Neoplatonist philosophy, also nature of visual...
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scholarship, the editio princeps (plural: editiones principes) of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts...
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Samuel Gee (category Academics of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital)
for the disease and adopts the same term as Aretaeus. Unlike Aretaeus, he includes children in the scope of the affection, particularly those between one...
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concerns of Hippocrates, Galen of Pergamon (129–199) and Aretaeus of Cappadocia (both of whom lived in Rome in the 2nd century AD) credit Asclepiades of Bithynia...
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John Wigan (physician) (category Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford)
His 1723 translation of the works of Aretaeus of Cappadocia was widely remarked on and was used as the basis of Herman Boerhaave's work on the same topic...
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The following is a list of ancient physicians who were known to have practised, contributed, or theorised about medicine in some form between the 30th...
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