Aurelius was a

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

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. His time is unknown, but he must have lived in or before the 2nd century CE, as one of his prescriptions is quoted by the 2nd-century medical annalist

Galen Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (; September 129 – AD), often Anglicization, anglicized as Galen () or Galen of Pergamon, was a Ancient Rome, Roman and Greeks, Greek physician, surgeon, and Philosophy, philosopher. Considered to be one o ...

. He is probably the same person who is mentioned by 19th century classical scholar John Cramer in his work ''Anecdota graeca''. John Cramer, ''Anecdota graeca e codd. manuscriptis bibliothecae regiae Parisiensis'', vol. i. p. 394

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