Sources of Ancient Healing Thermalism

Seneca

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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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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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Caelius Aurelianus: herbs given to the sick. See page for author, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Caelius Aurelianus

Médico romano, entusiasta de las aguas minerales. Finales del s. V d.C. Pero su obra es una traducción de la de Sorano de Éfeso (época de Trajano-Adriano), por lo que

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