Numisianus

Numisianus, (Greek: Νουμισιανός; 2nd century) an eminent Greek physician at Corinth, whose lectures Galen attended c. 150, having gone to Corinth for that very reason.^[1] He was, according to Galen,^[1] the most celebrated of all the pupils of Quintus, and one of the tutors to Pelops,^[2] and distinguished himself especially by his anatomical knowledge. He wrote a commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates,^[3] which appears to have been well thought of in Galen's time.

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Galen, de Anat. Admin. i. 1, vol. ii. p. 217
2. ^ Galen, Comment. in Hippocr. De Nat. Hom., ii. 6, vol. xv. p. 136
3. ^ Galen, Comment. in Hippocr. De Humor., i. 24, vol. xvi. p. 197; Comment. in Hippocr. Aphor., iv. 69, v. 44, vol. xvii. pt. ii. pp. 751, 837

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