Of the causes and signs of acute and chronic disease / Translated from the Greek by T.F. Reynolds.

  • Aretaeus, of Cappadocia
Date:
1837
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    the translation that exactly accords with the spirit of the pneumatics. I trust to be spared the “ adunc ” of the critical scholar at faults that may appear in this version of an author who in parts is confessedly obscure, from the corrupt and defective state of the text. The period at which Aretseus lived is not known with any certainty; Wigan, who ap- pears to have carefully investigated the subject, places it between the commencement of the reign of Nero, and before the time of Trajan ; Le Clerc thinks him probably to have been contemporaneous with Vespasian ; Homer and Hippocrates are the only authors quoted by him. He is quoted by iEtius, and Paulus iEgineta, writers of the fourth and fifth cen- turies, and in a work questionably assigned to Dioscorides. Galen makes no mention of him in any work extant. Where he wrote or practised, is equally unknown. His works were first printed in Latin, by Junius Paulus Crassus, in 4to. at Venice, 1552. The first edition of the Greek text was by I. Goupylus, Paris, 1554, in 8vo. A splendid edition in folio emanated, in