Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Chiara Thumiger Fifteen Centuries of Caelius Aurelianus: A Bibliography Part 1 Caelius Aurelianus in Context 2 The Doctor of Sicca Veneria: Caelius Aurelianus and His Geographical, Social and Cultural Milieu Nicolas Lamare and Chiara Thumiger Part 2 Medical Practice: Nosology, Pathology, Therapeutics 3 Something Sitting on Their Chest: Caelius Aurelianus on incubo Marke Ahonen 4 Delusions of Madmen in Caelius Aurelianus: Tradition and Innovation ( Chron . 1, 150-152 = 518.33-520.17 Bendz) George Kazantzidis 5 Caelius Aurelianus on Groundless Emotions, Emotional Blindness, and Madness David Kaufman 6 Is Sex Good or Bad for Health? Controversies over the Usefulness of Intercourse in Caelius Aurelianus Jean-Christophe Courtil 7 Alleviating Patient Burden Use of Benign Deception and Soothing Therapeutic Methods in Caelius Aurelianus' De morbis acutisand De morbis chronicis Krystal Marlier 8 Dying for Caelius Lesley Bolton Part 3 Intellectual Relevance and Philosophical Debates 9 Beyond the Koinotetes : Individual Diseases and Caelius Aurelianus' Methodism David Leith 10 Hydrophobia and the Methodist: How Caelius Aurelianus Comprehends a Disease within His Medical Framework Susan Prince 11 A Doctrine in Evolution: The Methodical Theory of koinotetes in Caelius Aurelianus' diaphonia Domenico Pellegrino 12 Caelius Aurelianus on the 'Invention of Psychiatry' Pierre-Henri Ortiz Part 4 Textual Transmission, Language, and Philology 13 Between Medicine and Philology: The Contribution of Robert Constantin to the editio Rovilliana of Caelius Aurelianus Anna Maria Urso 14 From Caelius Aurelianus to Prospero Alpini: The Value of Eclecticism in Medicine Caroline Petit 15 Caelius Aurelianus and the Portuguese Renaissance Medicine: Some Notes on His Influence Gabriel A.F. Silva 16 Some Remarks on the Indirect Tradition of Caelius Aurelianus (or Soranus) Manuel E. Vázquez Buján Part 5 Caelius Aurelianus and Scholarship 17 Les archives Caelius Aurelianus de Jackie Pigeaud (+2016) et son projet d'édition du 1erlivre des Maladies aiguës Philippe Mudry 18 Penser la médecine: Regards sur l'oeuvre de Jackie Pigeaud Philippe Mudry Index Rerum Index Locorum.