Statilius Attalus
Statilius Attalus was a physician of ancient Rome in the second century. He was the court physician, or Archiater of the Roman emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.[1]
He was a pupil of the Greek physician Soranus of Ephesus, and belonged to the Methodic school, but spent most of his career in Rome.[1] He is mentioned by the medical annalist Galen as having misdiagnosed the disease of which the Stoic philosopher Theagenes of Patras died.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Thonemann, Peter (2011). The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium. Cambridge University Press. pp. 222–223. ISBN 9781139499354. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
- ^ Galen, De Medendi Methodo, Seu de Morb. Curandis (De Methodo Medendi) 13.15. vol. x. p. 910, &c.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Attalus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 412.