Medical Definition of Alexander of Tralles
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Alexander was the youngest of five famous brothers and he too was a famous physician in his day and once practiced in Rome, where he has been introduced lately as one of the greatest scholars from the time of Galen to the Renaissance.
He is chiefly remembered as the Father of Helminthology (study of parasitic worms). He accurately differentiated the Oxyuria, a species of intestinal worms which he treated with enemas of ethereal oil.
He treated lesions of the upper bowel orally, and lesions of the lower bowel by the anus. He also introduced wine of colchicum for the treatment of gout, and this drug has remained as a current treatment.
Alexander's pharmacy texts were required reading five centuries later at the University of Paris. His greatest book was 12 Books on Medicine.
Lived: 525-605.
(15 Nov 1997)
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