L’integrazione problematica. Semeiotica e diagnostica del sudore nel Metodismo di Sorano e Celio Aureliano

Abstract

In the Passiones celeres and Passiones tardae by Caelius Aurelianus (V cent. a.D.) - a Latin re-elaborated version of a Greek lost original by Soranus of Ephesus (I/II a.D.), stands out a high attention to the phenomenon of sweat, thoroughly described using parameters of modern symptomatology. In this paper this description is examined and the relationship between symptomatology and diagnosis and symptomatology and therapy is clarified. At the end of the reasoning we wonder about the reasons why the author was interested in sweat according to the role that sweat itself, as a fluid, had in the Methodical doctrine.

Keywords

• Caelius Aurelianus
• Soranus
• Methodism
• sweat
• communities