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It may be asserted generally that there are few of the ancient physicians, since the time of Hippocrates, who appear to have been less biased by attachment to any peculiar set of opinions, and whose account of the phenomena and treatment of disease has better stood the test of subsequent experience.
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and Daniel Wilhelm Triller. The edition by C. G. Kühn, Leipzig 1828, included Wigan's text, Latin version, dissertations, etc., together with Petit's commentary, Triller's emendations, and Maittaire's index. An edition by
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The account which Aretaeus gives of his treatment of various diseases indicates a simple and sagacious system, and one of more energy than that of the professed
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because he maintained the doctrines which are peculiar to this sect; other systematic writers, however, think that he is better entitled to be placed with the
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brought out a new edition, of which the text and Latin version had been printed before the appearance of Wigan's; this edition contains annotations by
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The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian, edited and translated by Francis Adams, London, printed for the Sydenham Society, 1856
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Aretaeus offered clinical descriptions of a number of diseases among which he gave classic accounts of
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have now been issued in an annotated bilingual edition in Greek and French (Arétée de Cappadoce,
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Areteo di Cappadocia: interpretazioni e aspetti della formazione anatomo-patologica del Morgagni
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Laios, Konstantinos; Karamanou, Marianna; Saridaki, Zenia; Androutsos, George (January 2012).
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translation by Junius Paulus Crassus (Giunio Paolo Grassi), Venice 1552, together with
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Stannard, J. (March 1964). "Materia Medica and Philosophic Theory in Aretaeus".
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The medical opinions of Aretaeus have been discussed by such scholars as
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Sudhoffs Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften
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A more recent standard edition is by Karl Hude (1860–1936) in the
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Tsoucalas, Gregory; Sgantzos, Markos (September–October 2016).
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Des causes et des signes des maladies aiguës et chroniques
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Aretaeus von Kappadozien als medizinischer Schriftsteller
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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Zhurnal Nevrologii I Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova
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Physician
Greek
physicians
Cappadocia
Asia Minor
Turkey
Ionic Greek
diseases
Hippocrates
asthma
epilepsy
pneumonia
tetanus
uterine cancer
liver cancer
hysteria
headaches
mania
melancholia
coeliac disease
diabetes
Methodici
purgatives
narcotics
bleeding
Pneumatici
Eclectics
Latin
Rufus of Ephesus

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