Aelius Promotus

Aelius Promotus (Gr. ) was an ancient physician of Alexandria, of whose personal history no particulars are known, and whose date is uncertain. He is supposed by Villoison to have lived after the time of Pompey the Great, that is, in the 1st century BC. By others he is considered to be much more ancient; yet other scholars place him as late as the second half of the 1st century AD. He is most probably the same person who is quoted by Galen simply by the name of Aelius. He wrote several Greek medical works, which are still to be found in manuscript in different libraries in Europe, but as of the late 19th century none of these have ever been published. Some extracts from one of his works titled (Latin Medicinalium Formularum Collectio), are inserted by C. G. Kühn in one of his works, and also by Bona. Two other of his works are quoted or mentioned by Hieronymus Mercurialis. And also by Schneider in his prefaces to Nicander's Theriaca, and Alexipharmaca.