Catal. Cod. Graec. Biblioth. Laurent.

Nice'tas

(Νικήτας), a physician, to whom is addressed one of the letters of Theophylactus, archbishop of Bulgaria (Ep. 55). He is there styled "Physician to the King," and must have lived in the eleventh century after Christ.

Works

Surgical Treatises

He is, perhaps, the same person as the compiler of a collection of surgical treatises, who is supposed to have lived at Constantinople at the end of the eleventh or the beginning of the twelfth century after Christ. It contains extracts from the works of Hippocrates, Soranus, Rufus, Galen, Oribasius, Paulus Aegineta, and other writers of less note; and is to be found in MS. in the Libraries at Paris (Codd. 2247, 2248), and Florence. Of the Laurentian MS., which is very ancient and valuable, a full account is given by Bandini in his Catal. Cod. Graec. Biblioth. Laurent. (vol. iii. p. 53, &c. cod. 7), where he has also inserted a complete list of the chapters contained in the volume, to the number of five hundred and eighteen.

Editions

A part of the contents of this MS. was published at Florence, 1754 fol. by Antonio Cocchi, with the title: -- "Graecorum Chirurgici Libri : Sorani unus de Fracturarum Signis, Oribasii duo de Fractis et de Luxatis, e Collectione Nicetae," &c. &c. The editor has added a Latin translation, and some valuable notes.The Commentary of Apollonius Citiensis on Hippocrates "De Articulis" was extracted from this collection. [APOLLONIUS, p. 245].

Further Information

See Choulant's Handb. der Bücherkunde für die Aeltere Medicin; Dietz's Preface to his Scholia in Hippoer. et Gal.

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