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RUFUS of Ephesus, fl. first century A.D. under Trajan, emperor A.D. 98-117. He was the greatest Greek anatomist and physician of the Roman Empire after Galen. He made detailed researches on monkeys and pigs and wrote the first descriptions of the eye. His treatise on the pulse is the first attempt to base pathology on anatomy and physiology.

Rufus is one of the Physician's authorities, Gen Prol 430.

The phrase, "eek Rufus," occurring in final rhyming position, Gen Prol 430, suggests that it is added for the rhyme.


G. Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, I: 281-282; L. Thorndike, History of Magic and Experimental Science, II: 277.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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