Heliodorus (surgeon)
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Heliodorus (Greek: Ἡλιόδωρος) was a surgeon of the pneumatic school in the 1st century AD. He was probably from Egypt, and was mentioned in the Satires of Juvenal.[1] Heliodorus wrote several books on medical technique which have survived in fragments and in the works of Oreibasius.
References
[edit]- ^ "Heliodorus (3)". Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.).