Medius (physician)

Medius (Greek: Μήδιος; 4th-3rd century BC) a Greek physician who was a pupil of Chrysippus of Cnidos,^[1] and who lived therefore probably in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. Galen says he was held in good repute among the Greeks,^[2] and quotes him apparently as a respectable authority on an anatomical question.^[3] Like the other pupils of Chrysippus, he entirely abstained from bloodletting.^[3] He was, perhaps, the brother of Cretoxena, the mother of Erasistratus,^[4] but could not have been much older.

Notes

^ Galen, De Ven. Sect. adv. Erasistr. Rom. Deg. c. 2, De Cur. Rat. per Ven. Sect. c. 2, vol. xi. pp. 197, 252
^ Galen, De Cur. Rat. per Ven. Sect. c. 2, vol. xi. p. 252
^ ^a ^b Galen, Comment, in Hippocr. De Nat. Hom. ii. 6, vol. xv. p. 136
^ Suda, Erasistratos

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[1] Galen, De Ven. Sect. adv. Erasistr. Rom. Deg. c. 2, De Cur. Rat. per Ven. Sect. c. 2, vol. xi. pp. 197, 252

[2] Galen, De Cur. Rat. per Ven. Sect. c. 2, vol. xi. p. 252

[galen1-3] Galen, Comment, in Hippocr. De Nat. Hom. ii. 6, vol. xv. p. 136

[4] Suda, Erasistratos

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