Sources of Ancient Healing Thermalism

Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BCE – 65 CE)
Seneca was born in Colonia Patricia Corduba in Hispania, and was trained in rhetoric and philosophy in Rome.
He was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, a dramatist, and in one work, a satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.

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Galen

Galen of Pergamon (Latín: Claudius Galenus, Greek: Κλαύδιος Γαληνός), born September c. 130 CE, died c. 200), was a Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher. Alongside Hippocrates he is the

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Castelli

Phyisician from Bologna best-known for short treatise on Porretta hotsprings called Recepta aquae balnei de Porrecta written in 1351. He probably graduated in 1335 at the university of Bologna.

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