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1834 AD (search for this): book 20, chapter 100
; but nothing further seems to be known of his history. Lycus,See end of B. xii. OlympiasA Theban authoress, who wrote on Medicine; mentioned also by Plinius Valerianus, the physician, and Pollux. of Thebes, Philinus,A Greek physician, a native of Cos, the reputed founder of the sect of the Empirici. He probably lived in the third century B.C. From Athenæus we learn that he wrote a work on Botany. A parallel has been drawn between Philinus and the late Dr. Hahnemann, by F. F. Brisken, Berlin, 1834. Petrichus,See end of B. xix. Micton,The Scholiast on Nicander mentions a treatise on Botany written by a person of this name: and a work of his on Medicine is mentioned by Labbe as existing in manuscript in the Library at Florence. Glaucias,A Greek physician of this name belonging to the sect of the Empirici, lived probably in the third or second century B.C. Galen mentions him as one of the earliest commentators on the works of Hippocrates. It is uncertain, however, whether he is the person
217 BC (search for this): book 20, chapter 100
nius speak of Petronius and Dio- dotus, making them different persons; and it is not improbable that the true reading in c. 32 of this Book, is "Petronius et Diodotus." lollas,See end of B. xii. Erasistratus,See end of B. xi. Diagoras,See end of B. xii. Andreas,It is probable that there were several Greek physicians of this name; but the only one of whom anything certain is known is the physician to Ptolemy Philopater, king of Egypt, in whose tent he was killed by Theodotus, the Ætolian, B.C. 217. He was probably the first writer on hydrophobia. Eratosthenes is said to have accused him of plagiarism. Mnesides,See end of B. xii. Epicharmus,It is doubtful if the person of this name to whom Pliny attributes a work on the Cabbage, in cc. 34 and 36 of this Book, was the same individual as Epicharmus of Cos, the Comic poet, born B.C. 540. It has been suggested that the botanical writer was a different personage, the brother of the Comic poet Demologus. Damion,Possibly the same person as the
330 BC (search for this): book 20, chapter 100
ion,Possibly the same person as the Damon mentioned at the end of B. vii. He is mentioned in c. 40 of this Book, and in B. xxiv. c. 120, and wrote a work on the Onion. Dalion,See end of B. vi. Sosimenes,Beyond the mention made of him in c. 73 of this Book, nothing whatever is known relative to this writer. Tlepolemus,Beyond the mention made of him in c. 73, nothing is known of him. Some read "Theopolemus." Metrodo- rus,Probably Metrodorus of Chios, a philosopher, who flourished about B. C. 330, and professed the doctrine of the Sceptics. Cicero, Acad. ii. 23, § 73, gives a translation of the first sentence of his work "On Nature." Solo,A physician of Smyrna. He is called Solon the Dietetic, by Galen; but nothing further seems to be known of his history. Lycus,See end of B. xii. OlympiasA Theban authoress, who wrote on Medicine; mentioned also by Plinius Valerianus, the physician, and Pollux. of Thebes, Philinus,A Greek physician, a native of Cos, the reputed founder of the sect of
540 BC (search for this): book 20, chapter 100
ly one of whom anything certain is known is the physician to Ptolemy Philopater, king of Egypt, in whose tent he was killed by Theodotus, the Ætolian, B.C. 217. He was probably the first writer on hydrophobia. Eratosthenes is said to have accused him of plagiarism. Mnesides,See end of B. xii. Epicharmus,It is doubtful if the person of this name to whom Pliny attributes a work on the Cabbage, in cc. 34 and 36 of this Book, was the same individual as Epicharmus of Cos, the Comic poet, born B.C. 540. It has been suggested that the botanical writer was a different personage, the brother of the Comic poet Demologus. Damion,Possibly the same person as the Damon mentioned at the end of B. vii. He is mentioned in c. 40 of this Book, and in B. xxiv. c. 120, and wrote a work on the Onion. Dalion,See end of B. vi. Sosimenes,Beyond the mention made of him in c. 73 of this Book, nothing whatever is known relative to this writer. Tlepolemus,Beyond the mention made of him in c. 73, nothing is known