Alexander of Tralles

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Alexander of Tralles, Alexander Trallianus, (c. 525 – c.605) was a Greek physician born in Tralles in Lydia (modern Aydin, Turkey). He lived probably about the middle of the 6th century and practised medicine with success at Rome. The Greek text of one of his works was printed in Paris in 1548 and his De Lumbricis at Venice in 1570.

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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

[edit] Further Reading

• Kudlien, Fridolf. (1970). "Alexander of Tralles". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1: 121. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.