Flourishing Early Second Century C.E.
Physician, Medical Writer

Prolific Medical Writer. Some confusion arises about the biography of Soranus because of the presence in the records of several physicians with this common Greek name. This much is established: he learned medicine primarily at Ephesus, where there was a center for medical training. There he had a teacher, Magnus Ephesius, to whom he frequendy refers in his writings. Soranus became a member of the Methodist School of medicine that rejected the humoral theory. He studied also in Alexandria in Egypt and practiced medicine in Rome in the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian. He produced approximately twenty works on medicine, covering such topics as hygiene, chronic diseases, fractures, and surgery. He wrote a valuable work on gynecology and midwifery.

Source:

Helen King, "Soranus," in The Oxford Classical Dictionary, edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, third...