Severus
2. The author of a short Greek medical treatise. He is called by the title of Iatrosophista, and from some of the words he uses (e. g. ἀσκληπιασμός) may be supposed to have lived in the sixth or seventh century after Christ.
Works
Περὶ Ἐνετήρων ἤτοι Κλυστήρων, De Clysteribus
There is nothing in the work itself that deserves particular notice here.
Editions
This was first published by F. R. Dietz, 8vo. Regim. Pruss. 1836.
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