Philoxenus (physician)

Philoxenus or Claudius Philoxenus (Greek: Φιλόξενος), a Greco-Egyptian surgeon, who, according to Celsus,[1] wrote several valuable volumes on surgery. He is no doubt the same person whose medical formulae are frequently quoted by Galen, and who is called by him Claudius Philoxenus.[2] As he is quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion,[3] he must have lived in or before the 1st century. He is quoted also by Soranus,[4] Paul of Aegina,[5] Aëtius,[6] and Nicolaus Myrepsus,[7] and also by Avicenna.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ Celsus, De Medic. vii. Praef. p. 137
  2. ^ Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. ii. 17, iii. 9, vol. xiii. pp. 539, 645
  3. ^ ap. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. iv. 7, vol. xii. p. 731; De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. iii. 9, iv. 13, vol. xiii. pp. 545, 738
  4. ^ Soranus, De Arte Obstetr. p. 136
  5. ^ Paul of Aegina, De Med. iii. 32, vii. 11, pp. 453, 658
  6. ^ Aëtius, ii. 3. 77, iv. 3. 7, iv. 4. 43, pp. 331, 744, 800
  7. ^ Nicolaus Myrepsus, De Compos. Medicam. i. 239, 240, p. 411
  8. ^ Avicenna, Canon, v. 2. 2, vol. ii. p. 249
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