Aegineta, as being one of the earliest Greek medical writers who had described the Guinea worm; and he appears to have enjoyed a great reputation among the ancients, as Augustine calls him "Medicinae auctor nobilissimus,"<ref>‘Noblest author of remedies”; Augustine, Contra Iulianum’’, v. 51</ref> and Tertullian, "Methodicae Medicinae instructissimus auctor." See also Women's medicine in antiquity Notes References Further reading Weitzmann, Kurt, ed., Age of spirituality: late antique and early Christian art, third to seventh century, no. 187, 1979, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, ; full text available online from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries Greek text Johannes Ilberg, Sorani Gynaeciorum libri IV, De signis fracturarum, De fasciis, Vita Hippocratis secundum Soranum, Corpus medicorum Graecorum 4, Berlin, 1927. (online) Paul Burguière, Danielle Gourevitch, and Yves Malinas, Maladies des femmes'' (with French translation), Collection Budé, 1988-. English translation 1st-century Greek physicians Ancient gynaecologists Ancient Ephesians Ancient Greek science writers 2nd-century Greek physicians 1st-century births 2nd-century deaths