Aëtius Amidenus

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Aëtius Amidenus or Aëtius of Amida (Αέτιος Αμιδηνός) was the court physician of Justinian I. He wrote a medical encyclopedia called either Sixteen Medical Books or Tetrabibloi (Βιβλία Ιατρικά) which documents the medical knowledge of the Late Antique period, drawing on previous medical authors, including Galen and the encyclopedia of Oribasius.^[1]

In the manuscript for book 8.13, the word άκμή (acme) is written as άκνή, the origin of the modern word acne.

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1. ^ Kudlien, Franz. (1970). "Aetius of Amida". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1: 68-69. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.