Aristoxenus (physician)

Aristoxenus (physician)

Aristoxenus (Gr. polytonic|Ἀριστόξενος) was a Greek physician of Asia Minor who was quoted by Caelius Aurelianus. [Caelius Aurelianus, "On Acute and Chronic Diseases" iii. 16, p. 233] cite encyclopedia | last = Greenhill | first = William Alexander | authorlink = | title = Alexander Philalethes | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 345 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=acl3129.0001.001;q1=aristoxenus;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=360] He was a pupil of Alexander Philalethes and contemporary of Demosthenes Philalethes,Galen, "De Differ. Puls." iv. 10, vol. viii. p. 743-746] cite book | last = Heinrich | first = Von Staden | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date = 1989 | location = Cambridge | pages = | url = http://www.google.com/books?id=rGhlIfJZkVoC | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-521-23646-0] and must therefore have lived around the 1st century. He was a follower of the teachings of Herophilos, and studied at the celebrated Herophilean school at the village of Men-Carus, between Laodicea and Carura. He wrote a work polytonic|Περὶ τῆς Ἡροφίλου Αἱρέσεως ("On the Herophilean Sect", Latin: "De Herophili Secta"), of which the thirteenth book is quoted by Galen, but which is no longer extant. [Mahne, "Diatribe de Aristoxeno," Amstel. 1793, 8vo]

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