Palladius (physician)

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Palladius (

Rhazes
. Three of his works are extant:[2]

  • Commentary on Hippocrates' On fractures
  • Commentary on book VI of Hippocrates' Epidemics
  • Commentary on Galen's On the Sects

His Commentaries on Hippocrates are considerably abridged from Galen; they appear to have been known to the Arabic writers. They have both of them come down to us imperfect.

Notes

  1. ^ Heinrich von Staden, Hellenistic Reflections on the History of Medicine in Ancient Histories of Medicine: Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiography in Classical Antiquity, page 159. (1999). BRILL
  2. ^ Eleanor Dickey, (2007), Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatical Treatises, page 44. Oxford University Press

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1870). "PALLA'DIUS". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.