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Caelius Aurelianus

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AURELIANUS, CAELIUS, a physician of Sicca in Numidia, who probably flourished in the 5th century A.D., although some place him two or even three centuries earlier. We possess a translation by Aurelianus of two works of Soranus of Ephesus (2nd century), the chief of the "methodist" school of medicine, on chronic and acute maladies—Tardae or Claronicae Passiones, in five, and Celeres or Acutae Passiones in three books. We also possess considerable fragments of his 111edicinales Responsiones, also adapted from Soranus, a general treatise dealing with rules of health (salutaria praecepta) and the pathology of internal diseases (ed. Rose, Anecdota Graeca et Latina, ii., 1870). (Edi tions : Amman, 17o9 ; Haller,

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