Athenippus
Athenippus (Ancient Greek: Ἀθήνιππος) was a physician of ancient Greece who must have lived some time in or before the first century CE, as one of his medical prescriptions is quoted by the 1st century CE physician Scribonius Largus.[1]
He may perhaps be the same person as the man of the same name mentioned in the writings of the physician Galen.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Scribonius Largus, De Medicamentis Empiricis, Physicis, et Rationabilibus 3.26, p. 198
- ^ Galen, De Compositione Medicamentorum Secundum Locus 4.8. vol. xii. p. 789
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Athenippus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 403.