Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 50
ALEXANDER TRALLIANUS (525-605?) Libri duodecim. Razae de pestilentia libellus. . . . Conversi, multisque in locis restituti & emendati, per Joannem Guinterium Andernacum. Apud Hieronymum Scotum 1555 [8] 274 [1] ll. 15.5 cm.
One of the leading Alexandrine physicians, Alexander of Tralles possessed a scanty knowledge of anatomy and physiology, but he was nonetheless a very keen observer of clinical conditions and his descriptions of pleurisy and other chest conditions are remarkably accurate. After Paul of Aegina and Alexander, Byzantine medicine went into decline, although their works were much used in the East and the West. This translation is by Joannes Guinterius of Andernach (see No. 259). Rhazes' treatise on smallpox and measles (see No. 62) is of great importance in early epidemiology.
Cited references: Durling 150; Osler 436 (1556 ed.); Waller 347; Wellcome 211
Gift of John Martin, M.D.
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