Aretaeus of Cappadocia and the first description of diabetes

Konstantinos Laios, Marianna Karamanou, Zenia Saridaki, George Androutsos

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The name Aretaeus of Cappadocia has been linked with diabetes more than that of any other physician of antiquity, his texts forming a sophisticated synthesis of the previous knowledge on this disease copiously supplemented by his own observations …