| Summary: | In this MPhil thesis I have collected, re-edited, translated, and commented upon the fragments of the <em>Therapy and Upbringing of the Children</em> by Paul of Aegina which mostly survive in the Arabic tradition. Since there has been very little scholarly work on this paediatric treatise by Paul of Aegina, and no critical edition of its major source, al-Baladī, the philological work of securing the text, translating it, and giving it a first although preliminary commentary has been the prime objective. There are three areas I could only touch upon without being able at this stage to undertake any in-depth study: Firstly the Greek sources for Paul's <em>Therapy of Children</em> could only be dealt with in a cursory way. I have placed in appendix I the fragments of Rufus' <em>Therapy of Children</em>, one of the major sources and a treatise that we will probably be able to restore to a great extent with the help of the Arabic fragments, as the reader will see from the material presented here, since the limited time and scope of this thesis did not allow for a full edition of the text of these fragments. Secondly I inquired into the translation technique applied to Paul's treatise in F9 only, a field that will certainly yield many wonderful fruits once tilled thoroughly. Thirdly, I could make but a few remarks about how Paul's <em>Therapy of Children</em> was used in the subsequent tradition. This said I think nonetheless that the present work will bear some new evidence that can cast a fresh light on Greek paediatrics from Rufus of Ephesus to Paul of Aegina.
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