(Αἴλιος προμῶτος), an ancient physician of Alexandria, of whose personal history no particulars are known, and whose date is uncertain.
He is supposed by Villoison (Anecd. Graec. vol. ii. p. 179. note 1) to have lived after the time of Pompey the Great, that is, in the first century before Christ; by others he is considered to be much more ancient; and by Choulant (Handbuch der Bücherkunde für die Aeltere Medicin, Ed. 2. Leipzig, 1840, 8vo.), on the other hand, he is placed as late as the second half of the first century after Christ. He is most probably the same person who is quoted by Galen (De Compos. Medicam. secund. Locos, 4.7, vol. xii. p. 730) simply by the name of Aelius.
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