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    Alexander of Tralles (Medieval Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Τραλλιανός; ca. 525 – ca. 605) was one of the most eminent physicians in the Byzantine Empire. His birth...
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    Justinian I. Anthemius was one of the five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician. His brothers were Dioscorus, Alexander, Olympius, and Metrodorus. Dioscorus...
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  • physician of the same name is mentioned also by Soranus, Plutarch, Alexander of Tralles, Aëtius Pliny, and Tertullian. In Byzantine times, a Latin treatise...
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    Aydın (redirect from Tralles)
    Persians, but in 334 BC, Tralles surrendered to Alexander the Great without resistance and therefore was not sacked. Alexander's general Antigonus held...
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    Asia Minor Greeks (category Indigenous peoples of West Asia)
    Asclepiades of Bithynia, physician Rufus of Ephesus, physician Nicander, physician and poet Oribasius, physician Alexander of Tralles, one of the most eminent...
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    Use of the bulb-like corms of Colchicum to treat gout probably dates to around 550 AD, as the "hermodactyl" recommended by Alexander of Tralles. Colchicum...
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    compound form of ὀκτώ (oktō, 'eight') and πούς (pous, 'foot'), itself a variant form of ὀκτάπους, a word used for example by Alexander of Tralles (c. 525 –...
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    Salerno) was influenced by the treatises of the Byzantine doctors Aëtius and Alexander of Tralles as well as Paul of Aegina. The last great Byzantine physician...
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    and Roman physicians including Galen, Aretaeus, Hipposcrates, and Alexander of Tralles believed that donkey milk was a superior treatment for human illness...
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    turn quoted by Alexander of Tralles, who lived probably in the middle of the 6th century. Aëtius traveled and visited the copper mines of Soli, Cyprus,...
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  • Tong, puppet emperor of the Sui dynasty (d. 619) Alexander of Tralles, physician (approximate date) Brandub mac Echach, king of Uí Ceinnselaig (Ireland)...
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  • of Santa Maria is built in Ripa (Rome). Buddhist caves are completed at Ajanta (India) with stone carvings (approximate date). Alexander of Tralles,...
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    a series of excerpts from the sixth-century physician Alexander of Tralles. The first section of the manuscript seems to be a single group of medical recipes...
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    command of Maurice drives the Persians from Cappodocia (modern Turkey), and strengthens the Byzantine position in Caucasian Albania. Alexander of Tralles, Greek...
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    more by the 6th-century Aëtius and Alexander of Tralles, and the 7th-century Paul of Aegina, than by the Arabs. Hugh of Lucca (1150−1257) founded the Bologna...
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    of physicians in the Byzantine Empire studied geriatrics, with doctors like Aëtius of Amida evidently specializing in the field. Alexander of Tralles...
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    physicians. Of the authors represented, nine are Greek: Dioscorides, Galen (initial A), Democritus (B), Moschion (D), Oribasius (F), Alexander of Tralles (G)...
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    to place in the exercise of his profession. The exact time when he lived is not known; but, as he quotes Alexander of Tralles, and is himself quoted by...
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  • question of comparative body temperature, Galen agreed with Aristotle. The physicians Aecius of Amida (5th-6th century) and Alexander of Tralles (6th century)...
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  • thirty-two of Galen's works into Syriac and wrote medical treatises of his own 525 – 605 – Alexander of Tralles Alexander Trallianus 500 – 550 – Aetius of Amida...
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    of Petra and Palladios were equally known to the Arabic physicians as authors of the Summaria. Rhazes cites the Roman physician Alexander of Tralles (6th...
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  • official of Northern Qi (d. 571) Xiao Daqi, crown prince of Northern Qi (d. 551) Xiao Jing Di, emperor of Eastern Wei (d. 552) 525 Alexander of Tralles, physician...
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  • Cappadocia, Paul of Aegina, Oribasius, Aëtius of Amida, Joannes Actuarius, Marcellus Empiricus, Alexander of Tralles, Nicolaus Myrepsus, and Avicenna. There...
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  • command of Maurice drives the Persians from Cappodocia (modern Turkey), and strengthens the Byzantine position in Caucasian Albania. Alexander of Tralles, Greek...
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  • Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Aegina. He probably lived between the third and sixth centuries AD, or certainly not later, as Alexander of Tralles,...
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    Tralles (Ancient Greek:Τράλλεις) was a colonia (town) of the Hellenic, Roman and Byzantine empires, later known as Andronicopolis (Άνδρονικούπολις). Tralles...
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  • fragments are preserved by Aëtius Amidenus. He is quoted also by Alexander of Tralles, and Rhazes. Oribasius, Coll. Medic. viii. 45, p. 361; Synops. iii...
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    Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros. “Modelled on Archigenes theiotatos: Alexander of Tralles and his Use of Natural Remedies (physika).” Mnemosyne 69, no. 3 (2016):...
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  • The following is a list of post-classical physicians who were known to have practised, contributed, or theorised about medicine in some form between the...
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  • Constantinople Alexander of Cyprus Alexander of Tralles Alexander of Trebizond Alexander van Millingen Alexander Vasiliev (historian) Alexandretta, Battle of Alexiad...
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