Volume 1

Chronologia medica : a handlist of persons, periods and events in the history of medicine / by Sir D'Arcy Power and C.J.S. Thompson.

  • D'Arcy Power
Date:
1923
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    emetics and enemata, and is said to have received for restoring to health Antiochus, the eldest son of Seleuchus Nicator, King of Syria, in b.c. 294. 283-247 b.c.—Ammonios Lithotomus. A surgeon of Alexandria who first performed lithotrity. 250 b.c.—Demetrius of Apameia. A disciple of Hero- philos. Clinical observer and obstetrician. Apollophanes of Seleucia. Physician to Antiochus the Great [b.c. 223-187]. He wrote about venom¬ ous animals. ca. 250 b.c.—Apollonios of Memphis. Wrote on the pulse, surgery and diseases of the eye. 132 b.c.—The Alexandrian School became divided into:— (a) THE HEROPHILAN SCHOOL. Founded near Laodicea, which lasted until the second century a.d. The chief physicians of the Herophilan School were :— 50 b.c.—Zeuxis. The first head of the Herophilan School. He does not appear to be Zeuxis of Tarentum who belonged to the Empiric School, and was one of the earliest commen¬ tators on the Hippocratic writings. Zeuxis was succeded by ca. 1 a.d.—Alexander Philalethes. Head of the Phry¬ gian School of Medicine near Laodicea. He wrote on the pulse and on gynaecology.