Moschion (physician)

Moschion (physician): For the author of the gynecological treatise Gynaecia, see Muscio.

Moschion, (Greek: Μοσχίων), a physician quoted by Soranus,^[1] Andromachus,^[2] and Asclepiades Pharmacion,^[3] and who lived, therefore, in or before the 1st century. He may be the same person who was called the Corrector (Greek: Διορθωτής), because though he was one of the followers of Asclepiades of Bithynia, he ventured to controvert his opinions on some points.^[4]

A physician of the same name is mentioned also by Soranus,^[5] Plutarch,^[6] Alexander of Tralles,^[7] Aëtius^[8] Pliny,^[9] and Tertullian.^[10]

In Byzantine times, a Latin treatise on gynecology by an otherwise unknown Muscio was translated into Greek; this author came to be wrongly identified with Moschion.^[11]

Notes

^ ap. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc., i. 2, vol. xii.

^ ap. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc., vii. 2, vol. xiii.

^ ap. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., iii. 9, vol. xiii.

^ Galen, De Differ. Puls., iv. 16, vol. viii.

^ Soranus, De Arte Obstetr.

^ Plutarch, Sympos., iii. 10.2

^ Alexander of Tralles, i. 15

^ Aëtius, iv. 3.13

^ Pliny, H. N., xix. 26.4

^ Tertullian, De Anima, c. 15

^ Owsei Temkin, (1991), Soranus' Gynecology, page xlv. JHU Press

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

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