Heliodorus (surgeon)

Summary

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.

Commentary on Luxation attributed to Heliodorus

References edit

  1. ^ "Heliodorus (3)". Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.).