Soranus (Greek physician)

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Soranus, Greek physician, born at Ephesus, lived during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian (AD 98-138). According to the "Suda", he practised in Alexandria and subsequently in Rome. He was the chief representative of the school of physicians known as "Methodists." His treatise "Gynaecology" is extant (first published in 1838, later by V. Rose, in 1882, with a 6th-century Latin translation by Muscio, a physician of the same school). Also extant are parts of treatises "On Signs of Fractures" and "On Bandages". Of his most important work ("On Acute and Chronic Diseases") only a few fragments in Greek remain, but we possess a complete Latin translation by Caelius Aurelianus (5th century). The "Life of Hippocrates" probably formed one of the collection of medical biographies by Soranus referred to in the "Suda", and is valuable as the only authority for the life of the great physician, with the exception of articles in the "Suda" and in Stephanus of Byzantium (s.v. polytonic|Κώς). The "Introduction to the Science of Medicine" (V. Rose, "Anecdota graeca", ii. 1870) is considered spurious.

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Bibliography

*Greek text
**Johannes Ilberg, "Sorani Gynaeciorum libri IV, De signis fracturarum, De fasciis, Vita Hippocratis secundum Soranum", "Corpus medicorum Graecorum" 4, Berlin, 1927.
**Paul Burguière, Danielle Gourevitch, and Yves Malinas, "Maladies des femmes" (with French translation), Collection Budé, 1988-.
*English translation
**Owsei Temkin et al., "Soranus' Gynaecology", Johns Hopkins Press, 1956.

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