Quotes:Alexander Trallianus

Zirkoff, Boris

Alexander Trallianus. One of the most eminent of the ancient physicians, b. at Tralles, a city of Lydia, sometime in the sixth cent. a.d. Brought up under his father, Stephanus, also a physician. A man of extensive practice, long experience and great reputation in Rome, Spain, Gaul and Italy. His chief work called Biblia Yatrika (in Latin, Libri Duodecim de Re Medica) was written by him in an extreme old age, from the results of his own vast experience; it was ed. in Greek by Jac. Goupylus, Paris, 1548, fol., and publ. again with a Latin trans, by Jos. Guinterus Andernacus, Basel, 1556. Alexander wrote other medical works, such as De Lumbricis (Venice, 1570).

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, p. 356