Statilius Attalus
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Statilius Attalus was a physician of ancient Rome in the second century. He was the court physician, or Archiater, of the Roman emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.[1]
He was a pupil of the Greek physician Soranus of Ephesus, and belonged to the Methodic school, but spent most of his career in Rome.[1] He is mentioned by the medical annalist Galen as having misdiagnosed the disease of which the Stoic philosopher Theagenes of Patras died.[2]
