Philaretus (Φιλάρετος, ''Philáretos'') was a medical writer to whom a version of ''De pulsibus ad Antonium'', a
Greek treatise on the
pulse is attributed. His name is associated only with a
Byzantine revision of the text, probably from the ninth century AD. Whether he was responsible for the original treatise or only the later revision is disputed. The treatise belongs to the
Galenic tradition and is influenced by the
Pheumismatists. It shares diagrams with the works of
Theophilus Protospatharius. By the eleventh century, a
Latin translation was known at the
medical school in Salerno. Included in the ''
Articella
The Articella is a collection of medical treatises bound together in one volume that was used mainly as a textbook and reference manual between the 13th and the 16th centuries. In Middle Ages, medieval times, several versions of this anthology circ ...
'' compendium, it became one of the basic medical handbooks of the western
Middle Ages.
[Vivian Nutton (2006)]
"Philaretus (1)"
''Brill's New Pauly''. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
References
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Greek medical writers