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Soranus

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Soranus (sərā`nəs), fl. 1st–2d cent. A.D., Greek physician, probably b. Ephesus. He is believed to have practiced in Alexandria and in Rome and was an authority on obstetrics, gynecology, and pediatrics. His treatise On Midwifery and the Diseases of Women (tr. 1882) remained an influential work until the 16th cent.


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The Greek physician Soranus analyzed pregnancy in trimesters, the first of which should be spent "in seclusion" to avoid shocks that could disturb the pregnancy, and the second during which the movement of the fetus becomes pronounced (see Luke 1:44).
Contrarians that they are, Galen and Soranus (the second century writer of Gynaecology) argue that the womb is not animate or errant: "In particular [Soranus] rejects any idea that the womb is an animal; it 'does not issue forth like a wild animal from the lair, delighted by fragrant odors and fleeing bad odors.
Drawing on the biography attributed to Soranus, some authors worked up the genealogy of Hippocrates into an elaborate family tree.
 
 
 
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