Definition: Aretaeus of Cappadocia was a physician who followed the pneumatic school of medicine and Hippocrate's teachings. He is credited with describing such chronic conditions as pleurisy, diphtheria, tetanus, pneumonia, asthma, and epilepsy. He gave diabetes its name, from the Greek word meaning "siphon". He is the second physician known to describe ulcerative colitis (the first being Soranus).

Common Misspellings: Aritaeus of Cappadocia, Aretaeus of Cappadotia

Elsewhere on the Web:

The History of IBD
A short work on the physicians involved in the discovery of IBD.

Aretaeus Of Cappadocia
Short biography from Brittannica.

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