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AETIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 298 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AETIUS  , a

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

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