CAELIUS AURELIANUS (fl. end of 4th century), Roman medical writer from Sicca in Numidia. His writings on Chronic Diseases, his Quaestiones on materia medica and on Diseases of Women are little more than Latin translations of Soranus of Ephesus (fl. c. A.D. . Caelius is chiefly interesting for his clear observations, his differential diagnoses, his recommendation of mechanical, dietetic and hygienic means, and his knowledge of diseases of the chest and of the nervous system. His De Morbis Acutis was printed at Lyons, 1567.
See T. Meyer-Steineg, Das Medizinische System der Methodiker, eine Vorstudie zu C. Aurelianus "De Morbis Acutis" (Jena, 1916) .