Philo'xenus
（
*Filo/cenos) an Aegyptian surgeon, who, according to Celsus (
De ledic. vii. Praef. p. 137), wrote several valuable volumes on surgery.
He is no doubt the same person whose medical formulae are frequently quoted by Galen, and who is called by him
Claudius Philoxrenus. (
De Compos. Medical. sec. Gen. 2.17, 3.9, vol. xiii. pp. 539, 645.)
As he is quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion (ap. Gal.
De Compos. Medlicam. sec. Loc. 4.7, vol. xii. p. 731;
De Coompos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 3.9, 4.13, vol. xiii. pp. 545, 738), he must have lived in or before the first century after Christ.
He is quoted also by Soranus (
De Arte Olstetr. p. 136), Paulus Aegineta (
De Med. 3.32, 7.11, pp. 453, 658), Aetius (2.3. 77, 4.3. 7, 4.4. 43, pp. 331, 744. 800), and Nicolaus Myrepsus (
De Compos. Mledicam. 1.239, 240, p. 411), and also by Avicenna (
Canon, 5.2. 2, vol. ii. p. 249, ed. Arab.), where the name is corrupted into
Filodesifis in the old Latin version (vol. ii. p. 319, ed. 1595), and into
Phylocasanes by Sontheimer in his recent German translation (
Zusammengesetzte Heilmittel der Araber, &c. p. 215).
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