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Andron (physician) Apollodorus (physician) List of physicians named Apollonius; Archiater; Aristocles (physician) Ariston (physician) Asclepiades Philophysicus; Asclepiades Titiensis; Athenagoras (physician) Athenion (physician) Athenippus; Attalion
Greek: physician of the Empiric school: Herophilus: 3rd century BCE: Greek: deemed to be the first anatomist: Hicesius: 1st century BCE: Greek: head of a medical school established at Smyrna Hippocrates: 5th century BCE: Greek "Father of Medicine", wrote the Hippocratic Corpus: Irynachet: 22nd century BCE: Egyptian: senior physician of the ...
Antiochus (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίοχος) was a physician of ancient Greece who appears to have lived at Rome in the 2nd century AD. The ancient physician Galen gives a precise account of the food he used to eat and the way in which he lived, [1] and tells us that by paying attention to his diet he was able to dispense with the use of medicines, and when upwards of eighty years old used to ...
Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus [2] (Greek: Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – c. 216 AD), often anglicized as Galen (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ l ən /) or Galen of Pergamon, [3] was a Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher.
Hippocrates of Kos (/ h ɪ ˈ p ɒ k r ə t iː z /, Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Κῷος, romanized: Hippokrátēs ho Kôios; c. 460 – c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
Ancient Greek medicine was a compilation of theories and practices that were constantly expanding through new ideologies and trials. The Greek term for medicine was iatrikē (Ancient Greek: ἰατρική). Many components were considered in ancient Greek medicine, intertwining the spiritual with
More or less: "The lofty physician Loftyman of Loftyville, son of a lofty father, is hidden here under a lofty crag in the loftiest of fatherlands," or "is covered by the lofty tomb of a very lofty peak." Some attributed the whole epigram to Simonides. [7] [8] [9] Pliny considers Acron as the first of the Empirics. [10]
Petron (Greek: Πέτρων), also known as Petronas, was an ancient Greek physician from the island of Aegina. He lived later than Hippocrates, and before Herophilus and Erasistratus, so most probably around the middle of the fourth century B.C. He have written a work on pharmacy. [1] He was famous for the fever treatment. [2]