Aeschines (physician)
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Aeschines (Gr. Template:Polytonic) 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.
References
- ↑ Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), "Aeschines (4)", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, p. 40
- ↑ Eunapius, in vita Proaeres. p. 76, ed. Boisson
- ↑ Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis xxviii. 10