Philagrius of Epirus

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Philagrius of Epirus (Greek:Φιλάγριος Ηπειρώτης) a Greek medical writer, born in Epirus, lived after Galen and before Oreibasius, and therefore probably in the 3rd century AD. According to Suidas he was a pupil of a physician named Naumachius, and practised his profession chiefly at Thessalonica.^[1]

Theophilus gives him the title of Περιοδευτής,Periodeutes,^[2] which probably means a physician who travelled from place to place in the exercise of his profession. He seems to have been well known to the Arabic medical writers, by whom he is frequently quoted , and who have preserved the titles of the following of his works. (Wenrich, De Auctor. Graecor. Version, et Comment. Arab. Syriac. fyc. p. 296)

• 1. De Impetigine
• 2. De iis quae Gingivae Dentibusque accidunt.
• 3. De iis qui Me­dico destituuntur.
• 4. De Morborum Indiciis
• 5. De Arthritidis Morbo.
• 6. De Renum vel Vesicae Calculo.
• 7. De Hepatis Morbo.
• 8. De Morbo Colico.
• 9. De Morbo Icterico.
• 10. De Cancri Morbo.
• 11. De Morsu Canis.

Suidas says he wrote as many as 70 volumes, but of these works only a few fragments remain.

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