Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (Greek: Παῦλος Αἰγινήτης; Aegina, c. 625 – c. 690) was a 7th-century Byzantine Greek physician best known for writing the medical encyclopedia Medical Compendium in Seven Books. He is considered the “Father of Early Medical Writing”.[1] For many years in the Byzantine Empire, his works contained the sum of all Western medical knowledge and was unrivaled in its accuracy and completeness.[2]
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PaulofAegina or Paulus Aegineta (Greek: Παῦλος Αἰγινήτης; Aegina, c. 625 – c. 690) was a 7th-century Byzantine Greek physician best known for writing...
Aegina (/ɪˈdʒaɪnə/; Greek: Αίγινα, Aígina; Ancient Greek: Αἴγῑνα) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 27 km (17 mi) from Athens...
vinegar-and-water, the regular beverage of the classical Roman army on bad days. Thus Aëtius gives, and PaulofAegina repeats, a recipe for a "palatable and...
Alexander of Tralles, and the 7th-century PaulofAegina, than by the Arabs. Hugh of Lucca (1150−1257) founded the Bologna School and rejected the theory of "laudable...
Seven Books, written by the leading physician PaulofAegina, survived as a particularly thorough source of medical knowledge. This compendium, written...
ingredient in the prescriptions of ancient physicians from Galen to PaulofAegina, and in the Greater Kuphi. Isidore of Seville reports in his Etymologiae...
Ρ or ρ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. PaulofAegina explains conventional usage in the last chapter of Book VII on weights and measures and uses...
list of weights and measures for pharmacological purposes. Aëtius of Amida attributed a recipe for perfumed soap to Cleopatra, while PaulofAegina preserved...
to the goddess Aphaia on the island of Aegina, which lies in the Saronic Gulf. Formerly known as the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius, the Doric temple...
rings for the treatment of life-threatening airway obstruction. The 7th century Byzantine physician PaulofAegina, an advocate of the procedure, acknowledged...
(Greek: Ἐπιστολὴ Προφυλακτική), which is inserted by PaulofAegina at the end of the first book of his own medical compendium, and which, if genuine, was...
appears in hermaphrodites who otherwise have well-formed genitals, as PaulofAegina describes, but I have never once seen in any woman a penis (which Avicenna...
Tradition of PaulofAegina's "Pragmateia". Brill. ISBN 9789004137578. Retrieved 19 May 2013. Selin, Helaine, ed. (1997). Encyclopaedia of the History of Science...
The seventh century physician PaulofAegina records a "lunar" kyphi of twenty-eight ingredients and a "solar" kyphi of thirty-six.[citation needed] The...
Ishaq provided a better translation. The physician PaulofAegina lived in Alexandria during the time of the Arab expansion. His works seem to have been...
works of Aristotle, Caelius Aurelianus, Celsus, Dioscorides, Galen, Hippocrates, Oribasius, PaulofAegina, Pliny, Theodorus Priscianus, Soranus of Ephesus...
oratorio by Mendelssohn Paulus (surname), includes a list of people with the surname PaulofAegina or Paulus Aegineta (625–690 AD), Greek surgeon Paulus...
field of medicine, Antyllus excelled in surgery. His works have been lost, though some are reflected in the writings of Oribasius and PaulofAegina. He...
motion below the level of the cut. The seventh-century Greek physician PaulofAegina described surgical techniques for treatment of broken vertebrae by...
landmarks in history of cancer, part 1". Cancer. 117 (5): 1097–102. doi:10.1002/cncr.25553. PMID 20960499. S2CID 39667103. PaulofAegina, 7th century AD,...
Iatrosophista Gessius of Petra Magnus of Nisibis Oribasius Palladius (physician) PaulofAegina Severus Iatrosophista [ca] Zeno of Cyprus Iatrosophia "iatro-...
Seven Books, written by the leading physician PaulofAegina, survived as a particularly thorough source of medical knowledge. This compendium, written...
Byzantine physicians and medical writers Aëtius of Amida (fl. mid-5th century/mid-6th century) and PaulofAegina, as well as the North African gynecological...
disorders in Persia and Arabia 625–690 – PaulofAegina suggested that hysteria should be treated by ligature of the limbs, and mania by tying the patient...
healed. During the Islamic Golden Age, largely based upon PaulofAegina's Pragmateia, the writings of Albucasis (Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi)...
manuscript Vienna Dioscurides (6th century), and the works of Byzantine doctors such as PaulofAegina (7th century) and Nicholas Myrepsos (late 13th century)...
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