Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Aretaeus

（Ἀπέταιος). A physician of Cappadocia, born near the close of the second century A.D. He was the author of two works, each in four books, on the causes, symptoms, and cure of acute and chronic pains. He wrote in the Ionic dialect with much elegance and clearness; and his treatises show a correctness of understanding with regard to medicine unusual among the ancient writers on this subject. He discourses with especial acuteness of the nerves, of indigestion, and gives an excellent account of diseases of the throat and tonsils. See Mann, Aretaei Therapia (1858).