Soranus of Ephesus

He was born in Ephesus but practiced in Alexandria and subsequently in Rome, and was one of the chief representatives of the Methodic school of medicine.

According to the Suda (which has two entries on him),[1] he was a native of Ephesus, was the son of Menander and Phoebe, and practiced medicine at Alexandria and Rome in the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian (98–138).

He lived at least as early as Archigenes, who used one of his medicines;[2] he was tutor to Statilius Attalus of Heraclea, physician to Marcus Aurelius; and he was dead when Galen wrote his work De Methodo Medendi, c.

Of his most important work (On Acute and Chronic Diseases), only a few fragments in Greek remain, but there exists a complete Latin translation by Caelius Aurelianus (5th century).

[9] Tertullian quotes a work, De Anima, in four books,[10] in which Soranus divided the soul into seven parts,[11] and denied its immortality.