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

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
3. ^ ^{a b} Galen, Comment, in Hippocr. De Nat. Hom. ii. 6, vol. xv. p. 136
4. ^ Suda, Erasistratos

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).