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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).
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Drawing on the biography attributed to Soranus, some authors worked up the genealogy of Hippocrates into an elaborate family tree.
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