Hermo'genes
3. One of the followers and admirers of Erasistratus, mentioned by Galen (
De Simplic. Medicam. Temper. ac Facult. 1.29, vol. xi. p. 432), who is supposed to be the same physician who is said in an a ancient Greek inscription found at Smyrna to have been the son of Charidemus, and to have written a great number of medical and historical works. If his father was the physician who was one of the followers of Erasistratus [CHARIDEMUS], he lived probably in the third or second century B. C.
He is perhaps the same person said in another inscription to have been a native of Tricca in Thessaly. (Mead,
Dissert. de Numis quibusdam a Smyrnaeis in Medicorum Honorem percussis, Lond. 1724, 4to.; Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. xiii. p. 180, ed. vet.)
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