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Aretaeus of Cappadocia, engraving
Aretaeus of Cappadocia, engraving · Wikimedia Commons

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Aretaeus of Cappadocia

1st or 2nd century · Physician

A physician who wrote in the old Ionic dialect of Hippocrates and described diseases so exactly that his accounts of diabetes, asthma and migraine are still quoted.

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His four books on acute and chronic diseases, in Greek beside English.

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