Xenocrates of Aphrodisias
Xenocrates (Greek: Ξενοκράτης) was an ancient Greek physician from Aphrodisias in Cilicia.[1] He lived around the middle of the 1st century and was maybe the contemporary of Andromachus the Younger.[2] Galen says that Xenocrates lived before himself.[3] He was blamed by Galen for using disgusting cures like human brains, flesh, liver, ash from bone, urine, excrement, etc.[3] One of Xenocrates' works on pharmacy was titled On Useful Things from Living Beings (Greek: Περὶ τῆς ἀπὸ τῶν Ζώων Ὠφελείας).[4] Xenocrates is quoted by Galen, Clement of Alexandria,[5] Artemidorus,[6] Pliny the Elder,[7] Oribasius,[8] Aëtius Amidenus,[9] and Alexander of Tralles.[10] There is also a summary of Xenocrates' work on sea creatures (Greek: Περὶ τῆς ἀπὸ τῶν Ἐνύδρων Τροφῆς) preserved by Oribasius.[11]
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- ↑ Galen, De Simplic. Medicam. Temper, ac Facult., vi. praef. vol. xi. p. 793.
- ↑ Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc., iii. 1, vol. xii. p. 627; De Ther. ad Pis., c. 12. vol. xiv. p. 260.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Galen, De Simplic. Medicam. Temper. ac Facult., x. 1. vol. xii. p. 248.
- ↑ Galen, De Simplic. Medicam. Temper, ac Facult., x. 2. § 4, vol. xii. p. 261.
- ↑ Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, i. p. 717.
- ↑ Artemidorus, Oneirocr., iv. 24.
- ↑ Pliny, H. N., xx. 82.
- ↑ Oribasius, Coll. Medic., ii 58, p. 225.
- ↑ Aëtius, i. 2. 84, iv. 2. 35, 3. 14, pp. 75, 706, 760.
- ↑ Alexander of Tralles, i. 15, xii. 8, pp. 156, 344.
- ↑ See Oribasius' Coll. Medic.
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- Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.