John of Alexandria

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title: John of Alexandria
text: John of Alexandria was a Byzantine medical writer who lived in Alexandria, in present-day Egypt. He is thought to be the author of a commentary on Galen's De sectis, a Latin version of which survives in several manuscripts. He wrote a commentary on Hippocrates' book about the foetus, which survives in one Greek manuscript and in a 13th-century Latin version made for King Manfred of Sicily. He also wrote a commentary on the sixth book of Hippocrates' Epidemics, known from an anonymous Latin trans
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description: 7th century Byzantine medical writer
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