Charmis
(
*Xa/rmis), a physician of Marseilles, who came to Rome in the reign of Nero, A. D. 54 --68, where he acquired great fame and wealth by reviving the practice of cold bathing. (
Plin. Nat. 29.5.)
He is said to have received from one patient two hundred thousand sesterces, or 1562
l. 10s. (
Plin. Nat. 29.8.)
He was also the inventor of an antidote which was versified by Damocrates, and is preserved by Galen. (
De Antid. 2.1, 4, vol. xiv. pp. 114, 126.)
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