AEGINETA, PAULUS, a celebrated surgeon of the island of Aegina, whence he derived his name. According to Le Clerc's calculation, he lived in the 4th century of the Christian era ; but Abulfaragius (Bar-Hebraeus) places him with more probability in the 7th. The title of his most important work is 'Ercroµ3s larpocis 1343X/a 'Erra (Synopsis of Medicine in Seven Books); the 6th book, treating of operative surgery, is of interest for sur gical history.
The whole work in the original Greek was published at Venice in 1528, and another edition appeared at Basle in 1538. Several Latin translations have been published, and an excellent English version, with commentary, by Dr. F. Adams (1844-48). Edition by Heiberg (Leipzig, 1912) and German trans. with appendix by I. Berendes (Leyden, 1914).