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AURELIANUS, CAELIUS

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AURELIANUS, CAELIUS , a physician of Sicca in See also:Numidia, who probably flourished in the 5th See also:century A.D., although some See also:place him two or even three centuries earlier. In favour of the later date is the nature of his Latin, which shows a strong tendency to the See also:Romance, and the similarity of his See also:language to that of See also:Cassius See also:Felix, also an See also:African medical writer, who about 450 wrote a See also:short See also:treatise, chiefly based on See also:Galen. We possess a See also:translation by Aurelianus of two See also:works of See also:Soranus of See also:Ephesus (2nd century), the See also:chief of the " methodist " school of See also:medicine, on chronic and acute maladies—Tardae or Chronicae Passiones, in five, and Celeres or Acutae Passiones in three books. The translation, which is especially valuable since the See also:original has been lost, shows that Soranus possessed considerable See also:practical skill in the diagnosis of See also:ordinary and even of exceptional diseases. It is also important as containing numerous references to the methods of earlier medical authorities. We also possess considerable fragments of his Medicinales Responsiones, also adapted from Soranus, a See also:general treatise on medicine in the See also:form of question and See also:answer; it deals with rules of See also:health (salutaria praecepta) and the See also:pathology of See also:internal diseases (ed. See also:Rose, Anecdota Graeca et See also:Latina, ii., 1870). Where it is possible to compare Aurelianus's translation with the original—as in a fragment of his Gynaecia with Soranus's Hepl ymscuKeicov lIaO& '—it is found that it is literal, but abridged. There is apparently no MS. of the See also:treatises in existence.

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