eul_aid: pqo
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20335421
Leo of Constantinople
Λέων

Leo the Physician, Epitome on the Nature of Man

2 works

Leo of Constantinople is a ninth-century physician (Canon: LEO Phil., Constantinopolitanus, A.D. 9). Renehan printed De natura hominum synopsis in CMG 10.4 (Berlin, 1969), pp. 16–61, an epitome of human nature. A second work on this site is his Synopsis of Medicine, addressed to Georgios: not once or twice but often Georgios asked him to go over in brief the medical theorems learned in the lectures. Book 1 is fevers (synochos, tertian, quartan, hectic, marasmus); later books run the head, eyes, throat, gut, stone, and inflammations, each with cause, signs, and treatment, citing Galen and Hippocrates.

This is a Byzantine medical writer, not a second-century philosopher in a city not yet founded.

The slot is Leo the physician: epitome of man, and a fever-to-surgery handbook.

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