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AETIUS , a See also:Greek physician, See also:born at Amida in See also:Mesopotamia, flourished at the beginning of the 6th See also:century A.D . He studied at See also:Alexandria, and became See also:court physician at See also:Byzantium and comes obsequii, one of the See also:chief See also:officers of the imperial See also:household . He wrote a large medical See also:work in sixteen books, founded on Oribasius and compiled from various See also:sources, especially See also:Galen [Galenos] . Superstition and See also:mysticism See also:play a See also:great See also:part in his remedies . Eight books of the Greek See also:original were printed at See also:Venice, 1534, and a See also:complete Latin See also:translation by Cornarius appeared at See also:Basel, 1542 . See Weigel, Aetianarum exercitationum specimen (1791) ; Danelius, Beitrag zur Augenheilkunde See also:des Aetius (1889); Zernos, Aetii sermo sextidecimus et ultimus, editio princeps (1901) . |
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