Aeschines (physician)

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Aeschines (Gr. Αισχίνης) was an ancient physician who lived in the latter half of the 4th century AD.[1] He was born on the island of Chios, and settled at Athens, where he appears to have practiced with very little success, but ac­quired great fame by a happy cure of Eunapius Sardianus, who on his voyage to Athens had been seized with a fever of a very violent kind, which yielded only to treatment of a peculiar nature.[2]

Another Athenian physician of this name is quoted by Pliny,[3] of whom it is only known that he must have lived some time before the middle of the 1st century AD.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), “Aeschines (4)”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, pp. 40 
  2. ^ Eunapius, in vita Proaeres. p. 76, ed. Boisson
  3. ^ Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis xxviii. 10

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).