Herodotus (physician)

Herodotus was the name of more than one physician in the time of ancient Greece and Rome:

A pupil of Athenaeus, or perhaps Agathinus,^[1] who belonged to the Pneumatic school.^[2] He probably lived towards the end of the 1st century AD, and lived at Rome, where he practised medicine with great success.^[1] He wrote some medical works, which are several times quoted by Galen and Oribasius, but of which only some fragments remain.

The son of Arieus, a native either of Tarsus or Philadelphia, who probably belonged to the Empiric school. He was a pupil of Menodotus of Nicomedia, and tutor to Sextus Empiricus, and lived therefore in the 2nd century AD.^[3]

The physician mentioned by Galen,^[4] together with Euryphon, as having recommended human milk in cases of consumption, was probably a different person from either of the preceding, and may have been a contemporary of Euryphon in the 5th century BC.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Galen, De Differ. Puls., iv. 11, vol. viii.
↑ Galen, De Simplic. Medica. Temper. ac Facult., i. 29, col. xi.
↑ Suda, Sexstos, Diogenes Laërtius, ix. 116
↑ Galen, De Bon. et Prav. Aliment. Succ., c. 4. vol. vi.; De Meth. Med., vii. 6. vol. x

Sources

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.